Taylor v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1960
14 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 McCandless v. Commonwealth · Bullock v. Commonwealth · Tompkins v. Commonwealth · Ball v. Commonwealth · Choate v. Commonwealth
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is next argued that the court erred in admitting evidence concerning appellant’s attention to Mrs, Collins and his threatening attitude when spoken to by others about the matter, but this contention is without merit since such evidence is competent as bearing on the question of motive or the state of mind of accused toward deceased.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Huff v. Commonwealth
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.