Taylor v. . Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2019
16 state decisions
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.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not operate to prohibit persons from entering into written contracts as to land ... such as to make the future rights of the parties depend upon the fact of survivorship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where the joint tenancy would otherwise have been created by the law[.]”
1 later decision 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.