Taylor v. Westerfield’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably C. Y. Thomason Co. v. Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co. (1950), Foley Construction Company v. Ward (1963)
7 federal appellate · 21 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 Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · Diamond Block Coal Company v. Sparks · Hunt-Forbes Construction Co. v. Robinson · Boyd, Higgins & Goforth, Inc. v. Mahone · Wade v. Gray
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The reason for exempting a municipality or sovereign from damages for injuries inflicted in the performance of its governmental functions is one of public policy to protect public funds and public property. Taxes are raised for certain specific governmental purposes, and, if they could be diverted to the payment of damage claims, the more important work of government, which every municipality or sovereign must perform, regardless of its other relations, would be seriously impaired, if not totally destroyed. The reason for the exemption is sound and unob-j ectionable.” ■ x”
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.