United States v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
125 U.S. 646 · 1888
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1959
2 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And all officers of the Navy shall be credited with the actual time they may have served as officers or enlisted men. in the regular or volunteer Army or Navy, or both, and shall receive all the benefits of such actual service, in all respects, in the same manner as if all said service had been continuous, and in the regular Navy, in the lowest grade having graduated pay held by such officer since last entering the service.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is impossible not to conclude that the claimant continued to be after the passage of the act of 1870, as he was prior to its passage, an officer of the navy on the active list, and serving as such an officer by virtue of his having been appointed a midshipman and continuing to be a student in the naval academy, even though he might have been properly styled after the passage of the act of 1870 a cadet-midshipman.”
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.