Taylor v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 1982 · most notably Greene v. City of San Antonio (1915), San Antonio Traction Company v. George a Altgelt (1906)
1 federal appellate · 29 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In construing such a contract, the power of a municipality to contract, as well as the subject matter of the contract, and the purpose intended to be accomplished by it, should all be looked to; and it ought never to be inferred that a contract made by a municipal corporation was intended to inure to the benefit of an individual, further than this may be necessary for the protection of the municipality, unless its charter expressly or by necessary implication confers the power to make contracts to inure to the sole benefit of individuals, and the intent so to do clearly appears in the contract itself.””
2 later decisions 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.