Taylor v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 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.
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.
“Findings of fact shall not be set aside unless clearly erroneous, and due regard shall be given to the opportunity of the trial court to judge the credibility of the witnesses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he reviewing court's basic concern is whether there is sufficient evidence, as detailed by the record, to support the decision of the trial court. If so, then the trial court's decision is not clearly erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Fint
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.