Beaver v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
68 U.S. 637 · 1863
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1974 · most notably United States v. Annunziato (1961), Baltimore Co v. Mackey (1895)
22 federal appellate · 15 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Law v. Cross
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ They [the jury] may not have been satisfied as to the requisite possession under the first section, and have found for the defendant on the second section.””
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.