Beaver v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
93 U.S. 46 · 1876
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1967 · most notably United States v. Atkinson (1936), Palmer v. Hoffman (1943)
68 federal appellate · 17 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Rogers v. The Marshal · Ayrault v. . the Pacific Bank · Branch v. City of Charleston · Caldwell v. . Murphy
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Beaver v. Taylor, 93 U. S. 54 : “Before the case was submitted to the jury, the plaintiff requested the court to charge as set forth by him in eight several propositions. The court declined to charge as requested, but charged in’its own language, and fully, upon the case as presented by the evidence. The plaintiff excepted to the refusal of the court, and excepted, also, ‘to so much of the charge of the court as given as was in conflict with and variant from the several propositions’ presented by him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“- “One object of an exception is to call the attention of the circuit judge to the precise point as to which it is supposed he has erred, that he may then and there consider it and give new and different instructions to the jury, if, in his judgment, it should be proper to do so.””
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.