Taylor v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2004 · most notably Commonwealth v. Scoleri (1960), Williamson Estate (1951)
37 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sharswood, J. — There is no canon of construction better settled than this, that a statute shall always be interpreted so as to operate prospectively and not retrospectively, unless the language is so clear as to preclude all question as to the intention of the legislature : Neff’s Appeal, 9 Harris 243; Fisher v. Farley, 11 Id. 501; Becker’s Appeal, 3 Casey 52. Lord Bacon expressed concisely the same rule: Neque enim placet Janus in legibus.” Taylor v. Mitchell, 57 Pa. 209, 211, 212 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.