Bailey v. Taaffe’s Empirical Analysis
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Citation profile
174 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 181 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably 15 Cal. 3d 194 - Skelly v. State Personnel Board (1975), Continental Baking Co. v. Katz (1968)
174 state decisions — followed in 17 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.
Relationships
Relies on Roland v. Kreyenhagen · Woodward v. Backus · People v. O'Connell · Mulholland v. Heyneman · Barrett v. Graham
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 181 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'In a plain case, this discretion has no office to perform, and its exercise is limited to doubtful cases, where an impartial mind hesitates.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wood v. Steil · Williams v. Goodin
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.