Taylor v. Dorsey’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently January 2006 · most notably Bush v. Holmes (2006), 76 So. 2d 879 - Shuler v. Allen (1955)
90 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 Thompson v. Thompson · State v. Bryan · Weinberger v. Board of Public Instruction · State ex rel. West v. Butler · Dancy v. Baker
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the broker has brought the parties together and a sale is effected as a result of the continuous negotiations inaugurated by him.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen a legislative enactment is challenged the court should be liberal in its interpretation; every doubt should be resolved in favor of the constitutionality of the law, and the law should not be held invalid unless clearly unconstitutional beyond a reasonable doubt,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[U]nless legislation duly passed be clearly contrary to some express or implied prohibition contained [in the constitution], the courts have no authority to pronounce it invalid.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bush v. Holmes · Bush v. Holmes
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.