Baker v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently October 2001 · most notably Saphir v. Neustadt (1979), Sharp v. Mitchell (1988)
88 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 State v. Brown · Stoner v. Stoner · Brauer v. Freccia · Pawlinski v. Allstate Insurance · Johnston Jewels, Ltd. v. Leonard
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that amendments, unless they allege a new cause of action, relate back to the date of the complaint.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“trial courts have a distinct advantage over an appellate court in dealing with domestic relations, where all of the surrounding circumstances and the appearance and attitude of the parties are so significant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DECOSSY v. DeCossy
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.