Taylor v. Waters’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2006
15 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 Warrior Tombigbee Transportation Co. v. M/V Nan Fung · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc. · Empire Electronics Co. v. United States · United States v. Oakley · S. J. Groves & Sons Co. v. Ohio Turnpike Commission
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]ven though there may be no genuine issues of material facts between the parties, `[a] motion for summary judgment must be denied if the evidence is such that conflicting inferences can be drawn therefrom and if reasonable men might reach different conclusions.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he issue of estoppel is generally considered to be for the fact finder unless only one reasonable inference can be drawn from the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Haginas v. Haginas
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.