Taylor v. Dickerson’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 1982
7 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . .we think the testamentary intention to postpone the time of the vesting of the remainder estate was inferred by the court from the use and significance of the word ‘divided’; a word importing the disposition of the land itself rather than the intangible title to the land.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Felts v. Felts
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.