Taylor v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
286 U.S. 1 · 1932
Citation profile
303 federal appellate · 47 district · 265 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 830 later decisions (75 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably Illinois v. Gates (1983), Payton v. New York (1980)
303 federal appellate · 47 district · 265 state decisions — followed in 34 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Carroll v. United States · United States v. Lefkowitz · Burnet v. Coronado Oil & Gas Co. · Waldron v. Waldron
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 830 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No one was within the place and there was no reason to think otherwise.”
16 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.