Taylor v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
July 1981
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Swango v. Commonwealth
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * [t]hat as long as the trial court instructs the jury on reasonable doubt an instruction on the presumption of innocence is not necessary. [Citations.] * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.