Baker v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably Pitman v. Lightfoot (1996), Barker v. Coastal Builders, Inc. (1954)
5 federal appellate · 41 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 Holt v. Gordon · Watson v. Rice · Morris v. Logan
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule excluding extrinsic evidence as to a written instrument has no place in any inquiry where the court has before it an instrument not then effective [citations omitted]. The rule that parol evidence is inadmissible to contradict or vary the terms of a written contract applies only to a written contract in force as a binding obligation. Parol evidence is always- competent to show the nonexistence of a contract or the conditions upon which it may become effective, [citations omitted].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all claims, demands, choses in action, or other right of action, of every character and description, past, present, and future real or fancied, whether the same be enumerated herein or not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Denman v. Hall
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.