Baker v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably 35 Wash. 2d 1 - Gruen v. State Tax Commission (1949), Fent v. Contingency Review Board (2007)
3 federal appellate · 53 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 United States v. New Orleans · Graves v. Horn · City of Valparaiso v. Gardner · Winston v. City of Spokane · McNeal v. City of Waco
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`... [S]o far as the special fund doctrine is concerned, the majority rule as set forth in the case of Garrett v. Swanton, 216 Cal. 220 , 13 P.2d 725 , announces the correct rule that a limitation upon state or municipal indebtedness is not violated by an obligation which is payable out of a special fund, if the state or municipality is not liable to pay the same out of its general fund should the special fund prove to be insufficient and the transaction by which the indebtedness is incurred cannot in any event deplete the resources of the state or the municipality.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ . . . we are not concerned with its propriety, desirability, wisdom or its practicability as a working proposition. Those questions are clearly and definitely established by our fundamental law to a certainty as functions of the legislative department of government. The function of the court is clearly limited to the determination of the validity or invalidity of the act. . . .””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay to another, or to perform for his benefit; thing owed; obligation; liability.””
2 later decisions 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.