Taylor v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Ford v. State (1993), Brewer v. Mele (1972)
76 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 Brinegar v. United States · Beck v. State of Ohio · Gallegos v. Nebraska · Dyer v. Murray · Midgett v. State
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Since intent is subjective and, without the cooperation of the accused, cannot be directly and objectively proven, its presence must be shown by established facts which permit a proper inference of its existence. Malice and, so intent to murder, may be inferred from all the facts and circumstances of the occurrence. The, deliberate selection and use of a deadly weapon directed at a vital part of the body is a circumstance which indicates a design to kill, since in the absence of evidence to the contrary, the law presumes that one intends the natural and probable consequences of his act____ In the Webb case, we said that: ‘Neither can the intent be established as a matter of law from the mere use of a deadly weapon.’ If, however, the use of the deadly weapon directed at a vital part of the body is shown, this is a fact, not a presumption of law, which ... permits the inference____””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Jenkins“"No time limit is set in the Section as to when it is compulsory that an arrested person be taken before one of the judges; and no mention is made to the effect that a failure to take such a person before one of the judges by a specified time shall render a voluntary confession inadmissible. Had the Legislature so intended, it would have been a very simple task to manifest such intention. We hold that the failure to take the appellant before a judge of the Municipal Court prior to his confessions did not render them inadmissible.” 238 Md. at 432 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McClain v. State“this class of evidence is not admitted as substantive evidence to assist the State in establishing guilt, but simply for the purpose of determining whether the officers had probable cause....”
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.