Taylor v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2003 · most notably State Ex Rel. Tillman v. District Court (1936), Fuller-Warren Co. v. Harter (1901)
28 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ This matter of intention is coming to be the main test in such cases, and the matter of physical annexation of comparatively little importance.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““First, actual physical annexation to the realty; second, application or adaptation to the use or purpose to which the realty is devoted; third, an intention on the part of the person making the annexation to make a permanent accession to the freehold.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rinzel v. Stumpf
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.