Taylor v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
5,852 federal appellate · 344 district · 261 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10,601 later decisions (100 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Shepard v. United States (2005), Smith v. United States (1993)
5,852 federal appellate · 344 district · 261 state decisions — followed in 35 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Taylor (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Morissette v. United States · Russello v. United States · Perrin v. United States
Cited together with Shepard v. United States · Apprendi v. New Jersey · United States v. Booker · Almendarez-Torres v. United States · United States v. Olano
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 10,601 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i) has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of another; or (ii) is burglary, arson, or extortion, involves use of explosives, or otherwise involves conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another.”
178 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“look only to the fact of conviction and the statutory definition of the prior offense.”
170 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unlawful or unprivileged entry into, or remaining in, a building or structure, with intent to commit a crime.”
156 later decisions 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.