Taylor v. Conti’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Berin v. Olson (1981), Hart, Nininger & Campbell Associates v. Rogers (1988)
39 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 Whitman Hotel Corporation v. Elliott & Watrous Engineering Co. · Ball v. T. J. Pardy Construction Co. · Somers v. Hill · Bonczkiewicz v. Merberg Wrecking Corp. · Sisters of St. Joseph Corp. v. Atlas Sand, Gravel & Stone Co.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Surface waters are those casual waters which accumulate from natural sources and which have not yet evaporated, been absorbed into the earth, or found their way into a stream or lake.”
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.