Taylor v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2018
16 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 Mercer v. Commonwealth · Fortune v. Commonwealth · Hale v. Commonwealth
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`What reasonably appeared to the accused at the time of the shooting, as creating the necessity for his act, is the test and not what reasonably appeared to him, provided it would so appear to some other reasonable person under similar circumstances. '"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The Court instructs the jury that, in passing upon the danger, if any, to which the accused, Jack Banner, was exposed, you will consider the circumstances as they reasonably appeared to the accused and draw such conclusions from these circumstances as he could reasonably have drawn, situated as he was at the time; in other words, the Court instructs you that the accused is entitled to be tried and judged by the facts and circumstances as they reasonably appeared to him and not by any intention that may or may not have existed in the mind of Trooper Atwood.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a reasonable man placed under similar circumstances”
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.