Ex Parte Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2006
17 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 Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Styron · Bradford v. Magnolia Pipe Line Co. · Texas Lloyds v. Laird · 19 Tex. Civ. App. 325 - Long v. Behan
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The judge of said court, if the facts alleged and proven satisfy him that such change will be for the benefit and interest of the minor shall grant authority to change his original name and adopt another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bennett v. Northcutt
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.