Taft v. Lord’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 1977 · most notably State Ex Rel. Lea v. Brown (1933), State v. Clayton Brooks Hale (1961)
2 district · 23 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 Roberts v. Reilly · Christopher Strassheim v. Milton Daily · Innes v. Tobin · James Hyatt v. People of the State of New York Charles E Corkran · Farrell v. Hawley, Sheriff
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To constitute one a fugitive from justice, as administered in a given state, two things are essential, to-wit: (1) That he, having been in that state, has left it and is within the jurisdiction of another; and (2) that he incurred guilt before he left the former state and while he was bodily present in that state”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.