Taaffe v. Sanderson’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 1958 · most notably Sturdy v. Hall, Secretary of State (1940), Trussell v. Fish (1941)
36 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 Whittaker v. Watson · Storey v. Looney · Ferguson v. Montgomery · Cain v. Carllee · McLain v. Fish
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is next contended that the court erred in holding five voters from other counties not qualified because they failed to file with the judges of election their poll tax”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Logan v. Moody
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.