Taylor v. Pile’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2016
2 district · 11 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.
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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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Istate] constitutional ... right to cast a secret ballot”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] voter who has cast his ballot in good faith cannot be compelled, under the existing law of the State of Colorado, to disclose how he voted, particularly when the voter’s name appeared on the registration books and when the voter was not challenged by the election judges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mahaffey v. Barnhill“the undisputed fact was made to appear that all the ballots cast were not secret ballots, it was the duty of the court to declare the election void.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Samora
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.