State Ex Rel. Taylor v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Azar v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America (2003), New Mexico Right to Choose/NARAL v. Johnson (1998)
68 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.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 606 (§ 406 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Nixon v. Administrator of General Services · New York v. United States · Gregory v. Ashcroft · South Dakota v. Dole · 19 Cal. 3d 899 - Rose v. Superior Court
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is the particular domain of the legislature, as the voice of the people, to make public policy. Elected executive officials and executive agencies also make policy, to a lesser extent, as authorized by the constitution or the legislature. The judiciary, however, is not as directly and politically responsible to the people as are the legislative and executive branches of government. Courts should make policy ... only when the body politic has not spoken and only with the understanding that any misperception of the public mind may be corrected shortly by the legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A court may directly order an individual to comply with its order to purge himself or herself of contempt and may stay further sanctions if the individual complies with the order by a specified date.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“infringement occurs when the action by one branch prevents another from accomplishing its constitutionally assigned function.”
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.