Baker v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Stringer v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (2004), Columbia Sussex Corp., Inc. v. Hay (1981)
6 federal appellate · 43 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 Axton Fisher Tobacco Co. v. Evening Post Co. · Sebree v. Thompson · Commonwealth v. Hatfield Coal Co. · Marksberry v. Weir · Edwards v. Kevil
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where `the communication is one in which the party has an interest and it is made to another having a corresponding interest, the communication is privileged if made in good faith and without actual malice.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether the occasion of the defamatory publication is or not privileged is usually a question of law to be determined by the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“are actionable per se if they directly tend to the prejudice or injury of any one in his profession, trade, or business”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.