Taft v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 2007
6 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 In Re Y. · State v. Credit Bureau of Laredo, Inc.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) The court may not enter a decree that contravenes the verdict of the jury, except with respect to the issues of the specific terms, conditions of access to the child, support of the child, and the rights, privileges, duties and powers of conservators, on which issues the verdict, if any, if advisory only [emphasis supplied].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. T. A. B. v. W. L. B. · Tab v. Wlb
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.