Cook v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2014
19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“duty in such cases [is] to remand with instructions, pointing out wherein said board is in error”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“do not clearly express the true meaning and intent of the proposed ... constitutional amendment,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“An act to amend section 13 of article XII of the state Constitution, by providing for....”
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.