Baker v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 1943 · most notably Music v. Commonwealth (1919), Postell v. Commonwealth (1917)
1 federal appellate · 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.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not understand that the entire past lives of -witnesses are liable to he ransacked and exposed, and the whole history of their lives laid hare. We are of opinion that the period, concerning which the inquiry is made should hear some reasonable relation to the time at which the testimony is given, and that a period of fifteen years is too remote.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Holton v. Davis““Nor is it competent to ask a defendant questions whose only possible object is to excite in the minds of the jury a suspicion that he has been guilty of other offenses than the one for which he is being tried. ’ ’”
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.