Taylor v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2004
13 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 Frasier v. State · Foster v. State · Hoskins v. State · Abrams v. State · Smith v. State
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f no genuine dispute exists as to evidence of the elements which distinguish the greater offense from the lesser offense, the defendant is either guilty of the offense charged or not guilty at all.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crawford v. State“the edited version of the statute removed all context and significance of the various elements of the robbery charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. State“edited the statute to apply to the facts in the case, so the statute would be more easily understood by the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis 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.