Taylor v. Beard’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In our view, the appellants do not simply request that we remove an impediment to the continual development of the common law, nor do they ask us to interpret an ambiguous statutory or constitutional provision. Rather, the appellants ask this Court to declare the public policy of this State by creating a previously unrecognized common law cause of action in an area where the legislature has taken action.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. North Pacific Insurance v. Stucky

2. “far-reaching social and legal consequences in an area that we have consistently left to legislative discretion”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re CKG