Simon Taylor v. Joe Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
234 U.S. 74 · 1914
Citation profile
366 federal appellate · 188 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,147 later decisions (59 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Franchise Tax Board of the State of California v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern California (1983), Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian (1936)
366 federal appellate · 188 district · 19 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 Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mottley · Tennessee v. Union & Planters' Bank · Albert Shulthis v. D a McDougal · Robert Devine v. City of Los Angeles
Cited together with Franchise Tax Board of the State of California v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern California · Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mottley · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Taylor · Caterpillar Inc. v. Williams
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 1,147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unaided by anything alleged in anticipation of avoidance of defenses which it is thought the defendant may interpose.”
53 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether a case is one arising under the Constitution or a law or treaty of the United States, in the sense of the jurisdictional statute ... must be determined from what necessarily appears in the plaintiffs statement of his own claim in the bill or declaration, unaided by anything alleged in anticipation of avoidance of defenses which it is thought the defendant may interpose.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“alleged with much detail that the defendants were asserting ownership in themselves under a certain deed, and that it was void under the legislation of Congress restricting the alienation of lands allotted to the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians.”
3 later decisions 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.