Baker v. Weaks’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 1939
11 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 Price's Adm'r v. Thompson · Haggin v. Straus · Livingston v. Cochran · Penn v. Rhoades · Shelby v. Harrison
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The'reason for the distinction made between a sale to an appraiser and a sale by the commissioner to himself or to some one for his benefit, arises, doubtless, from the difference in the duties of the appraiser and commissioner, as the appraisement would not have any effect upon the price of the property, if the sale was fairly made; and the only evil influence, which an interested and designing appraiser could exert, would be to fix the value of the property, by the appraisement, at a sum lower than its value, and thus probably deprive the owner of his equity of redemption; and besides, the appraiser has no duty to perform in ordering, or ratifying the sale, nor in its conduct, except to make the appraisement.” See also Knight v. Whitman, 6 Bush 51 ; Vallandingham v. Worthington, 85 Ky. 871 ; Mastin v. Zweigart, 24 Ky. L. R. 1920, 72 S. W. 750 .”
1 later decision 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.