Baker v. Calvert & Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1855
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently November 1986
3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That court could render no judgment until after it had acquired jurisdiction of it as an appeal case; and the jurisdiction of the court was only retained upon the suggestion of a diminution of record for the purpose of compelling the justice to send up the judgment and appeal, if in fact, as suggested, such was the fact. The circuit court, therefore, should in its’ discretion either have compelled the justice to respond to the rule, or have dismissed the proceedings for want of jurisdiction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wettermark v. Roark
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.