Baker v. Kirwin’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Pike v. Triska (1957), Abilheira v. Faria (1967)
33 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 Estate of Kessler · Owens v. Reed · Laughnan v. Estate of Laughnan · Edwards v. York · Fitch v. Martin
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * and even if their destruction is voluntary secondary evidence of their contents may be given if the circumstances accompanying the act are free from suspicion of intent to defraud and consistent with an honest purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schroedl v. McTague
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.