Baldwin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 1994
24 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. Albarty · Luttrell v. State · Interstate Life & Accident Ins. Co. v. Gann · First National Bank of Elgin v. Russell · Abston v. State
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We think that this verdict is so unintelligible as to render it invalid. One can only speculate on what the jury intended to do in this case; and no evidence of their intention can be gleaned from the punishment imposed ..." (Ibid.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"`The verdict should be in language which is clear and certain as to its meaning and which cannot be mistaken.'" 213 Tenn. at 52, 372 S.W.2d at 189 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whitwell v. State
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.