Taylor v. Illinois’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
849 federal appellate · 126 district · 1,368 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,174 later decisions (39 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably Puckett v. United States (2009), Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Abudu (1988)
849 federal appellate · 126 district · 1,368 state decisions — followed in 48 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Chambers v. Mississippi · United States v. Nixon · Washington v. Texas · Pennsylvania v. Ritchie
Cited together with Chambers v. Mississippi · Strickland v. Washington · Washington v. Texas · Rock v. Arkansas · Williams v. Taylor
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 3,174 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The accused does not have an unfettered right to offer testimony that is incompetent, privileged, or otherwise inadmissible under standard rules of evidence.”
225 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]lthough there are basic rights that the attorney cannot waive without the fully informed and publicly acknowledged consent of the client, the lawyer has — and must have — full authority to manage the conduct of the trial. The adversary process could not function effectively if every tactical decision required client approval.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“arbitrary or disproportionate to the purposes they are designed to serve,”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Ferensic v. Birkett · Scrimo v. Lee
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.