Taylor v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 1991 · most notably 158 W. Va. 111 - State v. Flinn (1974), Thompson v. Smith (1930)
27 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
Relies on Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Buttfield v. Stranahan · Hall v. Geiger-Jones Co. · Harry Gundling v. City of Chicago · Eubank v. City of Richmond
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true that no appeal is expressly given from the decision of the Superintendent of Police, but the right of appeal to a higher tribunal is not a constitutional right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.