Tayloe v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently December 1999 · most notably 714 So. 2d 293 - Blue Cross and Blue Shield v. Nielsen (1998), State Ex Rel. Ward v. Henry (1931)
48 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 United States v. Ballin · State ex rel. Vandiver v. Burke · State ex rel. Clarke v. Carter · Jackson v. Sherrod · State ex rel. Payne v. Reeves
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has now been long declared by this Court that for new and additional duties an incumbent of a public office may be awarded extra compensation without a violation of sections 118 or 281, [Const.] forbidding an increase of salary during the term. It may be said a rule of legislative policy has grown up by the sanction of this court’s construction of these sections.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.