Taylor v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

29 state decisions

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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““. . . We hold that proof of lack of consent to the entry and taking of personal property in prosecutions for burglary with intent to commit theft or theft may be made by circumstantial evidence the same as any other issue in a criminal case may be proved by circumstantial evidence. Cases holding to the contrary are overruled.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Briscoe v. State · Williams v. State

2. “As Mrs. Tallie Devereaux was preparing breakfast ..., she heard the front door bell ring. She looked through the blinds ... and saw the appellant_ Because she did not want to “take any chances” she did not answer the door. Instead, when the door bell ringing persisted, Mrs. Devereaux gathered up her two small children and went to her bedroom .... She ran and called the police at this point, and then telephoned her mother. While talking to her mother, she heard the back window being broken. Her mother told Mrs. Devereaux to “grab the kids and run into the bathroom and lock it up:” This Mrs. Dever-eaux did. While in the bathroom[,] she heard footsteps and voices all over the house. The voices were gone in eight or ten minutes, and Mrs. Devereaux opened the bathroom door to find her bedroom ransacked, her purse rifled, and a television and stereo gone.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Alex v. State