Baker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 14 district · 99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Republican Party of Minnesota v. White (2002), 135 S. Ct. 2584 - Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)
4 federal appellate · 14 district · 99 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Mapp v. Ohio · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc.
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the same benefits and protections afforded by Vermont law to married opposite-sex couples.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community, and not for the particular emolument or advantage of any single person, family, or set of persons, who are a part only of that community; and that the community hath an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right, to reform or alter government, in such manner as shall be, by that community, judged most conducive to the public weal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Consistent with Article 7's guiding principle of affording the protection and benefit of the law to all members of the Vermont community, we examine the nature of the classification to determine whether it is reasonably necessary to accomplish the State's claimed objectives.”
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.