Taylor v. Henry’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Milholland v. Whalen (1899), Whalen v. Milholland (1899)
1 federal appellate · 71 state decisions — followed in 21 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.
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Eor the purpose of establishing such trust (a trust of the declarant’s own property), however, the evidence must be clear and unmistakable both of the intent and the execution of that intent. . . . There is no reliable evidence of declarations of the deceased, either in writing or by parol, that tends to prove that he designed the money on deposit exclusively for his sister, or that he intended to give her any real interest in the money by inserting her name in the bank-book, apart from the entry itself. . . . His declarations, conduct, and dealing with the subject-matter, all go irresistibly to show that he never did and never intended to part with or surrender his absolute control and dominion over the fund, during life. ...””
1 later decision 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.