Taylor v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2002
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 Glasser v. United States · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Holloway v. Arkansas · United States v. Benavidez · Ex Parte Salfen
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.
“Certain risks are inherent in the decision of co-defendants to rely on joint legal representation, whatever the reason or perceived benefits may be. The fact their legal counsel may ultimately find maneuvering more difficult, when confronted with evidence showing the State’s case to be stronger against one client than the other, does not mean that if convicted a defendant is entitled to reversal because hindsight has proven the co-defendants’ decision to have been ill-advised. The same reasoning would apply where legal counsel realizes his clients are being viewed as partners in crime due to joint legal representation. If actual conflict of interests can be established on this basis, a case in which an untested strategy will not look better than an unsuccessful one will be rare.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The record does not show that Ferris’ participation in the transaction extended to anything more than being the person who brought the buyer and seller together. The evidence does not show, for example, that Ferris attempted to purchase the drugs from Ramage in order to resell them to Powell or to any other person; however, the evidence is sufficient to show that Ferris, as an informant, was facilitating the drug buy for Powell and that Ramage, Weber and Appellant were aware that Powell had the money and was the intended purchaser. The mere fact that Ferris was present at the time Ramage offered to sell the drugs to Powell does not establish Ferris as an “offeree””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Knight v. State
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.