Taylor v. Birks’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 1988
5 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 Sparf v. United States · Chicago Co v. Cole · Georgia v. Brailsford · St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co. v. Robinson · St. Louis & S. F. R. Co. v. Jones
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order for it to be necessary to instruct on the question of contributory negligence there must be some evidence produced at the trial, either by the plaintiff or defendants, from which contributory negligence could be inferred or presumed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carnes v. White““The defense of contributory negligence * * * shall, in all cases whatsoever, be a question of fact and shall at all times be left to the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rader v. Fleming
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.