Taylor v. Perkins’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1965
2 federal appellate · 9 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 Bent v. Priest · Taylor v. St. Louis Transit Co. · Duke v. Harper · Kelerher v. Henderson · Breeden v. Frankford Marine, Accident & Plate Glass Insurance
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where sordid gain is the contractual motive, the ties of blood and of charity and friendship are succeeded by selfishness, and what would have been humane maintenance becomes unlawful champerty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Curry v. Dahlberg
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.