Taylor v. Kentucky’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
384 federal appellate · 42 district · 648 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,369 later decisions (51 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2025 · most notably Jackson v. Virginia (1979), Bell v. Wolfish (1979)
384 federal appellate · 42 district · 648 state decisions — followed in 45 states
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 Cupp v. Naughten · Estelle v. Williams · Henderson v. Kibbe · Holt v. United States · Cruz v. Hauck
Cited together with Estelle v. Williams · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Kentucky v. Whorton · Chapman v. State of California · Jackson v. Virginia
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 1,369 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one accused of a crime is entitled to have his guilt or innocence determined solely on the basis of the evidence introduced at trial”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘[I]n a criminal case the term [presumption of innocence] does convey a special and perhaps useful hint over and above the other form of the rule about the burden of proof, in that it cautions the jury to put away from their minds all the suspicion that arises from the arrest, the indictment, and the arraignment, and to reach their conclusion solely from the legal evidence adduced. In other words, the rule about burden of proof requires the prosecution by evidence to convince the jury of the accused’s guilt; while the presumption of innocence, too, requires this, but conveys for the jury a special and additional caution (which is perhaps only an implied corollary to the other) to consider, in the material for their belief, nothing but the evidence, i.e., no surmises based on the present situation of the accused. This caution is indeed particularly needed in criminal cases.’ (emphasis the Court’s).”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“arguments of counsel cannot substitute for instructions by the court.”
10 later decisions 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.