Taylor v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Marcum v. State (2000), Williams v. State (1999)
34 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 Jordan v. State · Bacher v. State · Brooks v. State · Roach v. State · Williams v. State
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A witness who is qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education may testify in the form of an opinion or otherwise if the expert’s scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will help the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue. (b) Expert scientific testimony is admissible only if the court is satisfied that the expert testimony rests upon reliable scientific principles.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A claim of self-defense in a homicide prosecution requires, among other things, that the defendant had a reasonable belief that deadly force was 'necessary to prevent serious bodily injury to himself or a third person or the commission of a forcible felony.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Adams v. State · Oliver 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.