Taber v. Hutson’s Empirical Analysis
1854
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently February 1993 · most notably Vernon Fire & Casualty Insurance Co. v. Sharp (1976), Photovest Corporation v. Fotomat Corporation (1979)
2 federal appellate · 60 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.
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“accord with the spirit of our institutions. The constitution declares, that 'no person shall be twice put in jeopardy for the same offence;' and though that provision may not relate to the remedies secured by civil proceedings, still it serves to illustrate a fundamental principle inculcated by every well-regulated system of government....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eddy v. McGinnis
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.