Taylor v. Mayo’s Empirical Analysis
110 U.S. 330 · 1884
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 23 district · 155 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 251 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2021 · most notably Chauffeurs, Teamsters & Helpers Local No. 391 v. Terry (1990), Crocker v. Malley (1919)
32 federal appellate · 23 district · 155 state decisions — followed in 31 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Barton v. Barbour · Thacher v. Dinsmore · Duvall v. Craig · Forster v. Fuller
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 251 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"When a trustee contracts as such, unless he is bound, no one is bound, for he has no principal. The trust estate cannot promise; the contract is therefore the personal undertaking of the trustee . . . he is personally bound by the contracts he makes as trustee. . . . Of course, when a trustee acts in good faith for the benefit of the trust, he is entitled to indemnity himself for his engagements out of the estate in his hands . . .." 110 U.S. at 334-335 , 45 S.Ct. at 150. [5]”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.