Taylor v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1991
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 Moses v. Julian · State Ex Rel. Palmer v. Atkinson · Forest Coal Co. v. Doolittle · Ewing v. Haas
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule may be thus stated: Within liberal limits, a judge, in determining his own qualifications, must exercise sound judicial discretion, subject to review. To make him the final judge is to take us back to the days of Baron Jeffreys. [1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem English jurist, 1648-1689]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Doe“In order to disqualify, the interest of the judge must be in the subject matter of the case, and not merely in the legal question involved in it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.