Taylor v. Gregg’s Empirical Analysis
36 F.3d 453 · 1994
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Deville v. Marcantel (2009), Castellano v. Fragozo (2003)
38 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. · S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico · Bowsher v. Merck & Co. · Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Public Utilities Commission · Lustig v. United States
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Second Circuit stated that proceedings are terminated in favor of the accused only when their final disposition indicates that the accused is not guilty.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Uboh v. Reno · Evans v. Ball“facts supporting an arrest are placed before an independent intermediary such as a ... grand jury, the intermediary's decision breaks the chain of causation”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“remains intact if it can be shown that the deliberations of that intermediary were in some way tainted by the actions of the defendant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.