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Taylor v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis

1875

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
October 1956
most recently cited

17 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 1956

17 state decisions

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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 Marshall v. Betner · Hoffman v. Hoffman · Crabtree v. Cliatt · Adams v. Mills · Hall v. Cannte

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

  1. “In the light of the former law and existing system, new constitutional provisions are to be read and interpreted, if their real meaning is ascertained, and the intent of the lawgiver carried into effect.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “not the origin or beginning of law in the state”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.