Taylor v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably 138 N.C. App. 19 - Poor v. Hill (2000), Abels v. Renfro Corp. (1993)
97 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 Moore v. Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. · Manganello v. Permastone, Inc. · Williams v. Carolina Power & Light Co. · Summey v. Cauthen · Bryant v. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““whether the evidence is sufficient to go to the jury. In passing upon such motion the court must consider the evidence in the light most favorable to the non-movant. That is, the evidence in favor of the non-movant must be deemed true, all conflicts in the evidence 'must be resolved in his favor and he is entitled to the benefit of every inference reasonably to be drawn in his favor. It is only when the evidence is insufficient to support a verdict in the non-movant’s favor that the motion should be granted.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Only in exceptional cases is it proper to enter a directed verdict or a judgment notwithstanding the verdict against a plaintiff in a negligence case (citations omitted). Issues arising in negligence cases are ordinarily not susceptible of summary adjudication because application of the prudent man test, or any other applicable standard of care, is generally for the jury (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[Application of the prudent man test, or any other applicable standard of care, is generally for the jury. Greater judicial caution is therefore called for in actions alleging negligence as a basis for plaintiff’s recovery or, in the alternative, asserting contributory negligence as a bar to that recovery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.