Taylor v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

cited by 30 later decisions

states following

July 2015

most recently cited

29 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably 475 So. 2d 1136 - Johnson v. State (1985), Hart v. State (1994)

29 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 Lockett v. Ohio · Rummel v. Estelle · Roberts v. Louisiana · Commonwealth v. McCusker · 10 Cal. 3d 750 - People v. Poddar

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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“[w]here insanity is not the defense, the determination of the ultimate fact of murder or manslaughter is left to the jury and is not subject to expert opinion testimony.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Garrison v. State · 524 So. 2d 957 - May v. State
“In Taylor , the Mississippi Supreme Court held that the question of whether the accused has acted in the heat of passion is to be resolved by utilization of an objective standard. The standard presupposes an individual without serious mental and- emotional defects. Therefore, Dabney’s mental retardation, in the absence of an insanity defense, is irrelevant to the issue of whether he acted in the heat of passion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 170 So. 3d 1245 - Marc Lewis v. State of Mississippi
“on the subjective intentions of an accused based on conclusions reached from his observation invades the province of the fact finder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Garrison v. State

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.