Taylor v. . Hodge’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Pitts v. Village Inn Pizza, Inc. (1978), Jones v. Gwynne (1984)
32 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 Miller v. . Greenwood · Melton v. Rickman · Kelly v. Newark Shoe Stores Co. · Wilkinson v. . Wilkinson · Rawls v. . Bennett
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the defendant acted against his own lightlaid the charge regardless of facts within his knowledge which should have convinced a man of ordinary prudence and intelligence of the plaintiff's innocence of that crime....”
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.