Taylor v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 1990
7 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.
Relationships
Relies on Coffee v. State
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By the defendant’s testimony he carried the pistol that day to protect himself, that is, to go armed. It is no defense that a defendant has armed himself solely for the purpose of self-defense. Coffee v. State, 72 Tenn. 245 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cole v. State““Q. Mr. Griffin, did the facts that you have testified to here today, did they happen in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee? “A. Yes, Sir.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bennett
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.