Baldwin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
6 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably 12 Cal. 3d 382 - Rodriguez v. Bethlehem Steel Corp. (1974), Deems v. Western Maryland Railway Co. (1967)
6 district · 23 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 Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · 20 Ill. 2d 406 - Dini v. Naiditch · Montgomery v. Stephan · Jackson v. Rutland & Burlington Railroad · Kronenbitter v. Washburn Wire 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mrs. Baldwin’s action must stand, if it will, on a breach of a duty owing to her alone. A right to a recovery [in] negligence does not accrue to a plaintiff derivatively. Nor is it available to a “vicarious beneficiary — to vindicate an interest invaded in the person of another.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“established legal principle, precedent or policy to hold otherwise,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitney v. Fisher
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.