Clayton v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 1997 · most notably Durham v. National Pool Equipment Co. (1964), Virginia Electric & Power Co. v. Mabin (1962)
43 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 Massie v. Firmstone · Federal Land Bank v. Birchfield · Chappell v. White · Crew v. Nelson · Davis Bakery, Inc. v. Dozier
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * (F)or a litigant to be barred from recovery because his testimony is irreconcilable or at variance with physical facts or other certain proof, it must have been unequivocal and upon matter within his knowledge and so conclusively in conflict with other proven facts as to leave no reason for difference of opinion between reasonable men.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Conflicts in the testimony and all just inferences that may be drawn from the evidence have been resolved by the jury in Taylor's favor and we must view the evidence in the light most favorable to him.”
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.