Baustian v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently October 1962 · most notably Williamson v. St. Louis Public Service Co. (1952), State Ex Rel. Terminal Railroad v. Flynn (1953)
2 federal appellate · 74 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Carvin v. City of St. Louis · Badgley v. City of St. Louis · Norton v. City of St. Louis · Geer v. Missouri Lumber & Mining Co. · City of St. Louis v. Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““They are of the same character of evidence as diagrams and pictures drawn by hand; not, necessarily carrying the same degree of probative force, but still of the same character; not in themselves evidence at all, hut representing to the eye what the witness declares, was the real appearance of the thing at the times he saw it. Diagrams, drawings, and photographs are resorted to only because the witness cannot, with language, as clearly convey to the minds ol' the court and jury the scene as the light printed it on the retina of his own eye at the time of which he is testifying.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.