Nelson v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 1977
18 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 State ex rel. Hart v. Common Council · Dullam v. Willson · Biggs v. McBride · Ham v. Board of Police · Wills v. Nehalem Coal Co.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No member of the Bureau of Police, who has served faithfully and efficiently for six years continuously, shall be removed or discharged without first having a trial or hearing, and not then except for cause upon written charges, of which one copy shall have been served upon him * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Winslow v. Minto
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.