Baker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2019
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 Wallis v. State · Compton v. State · Ince 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Certainly, if by reasonable construction the language of the information charges an offense against the laws of the State, under any other provisions of the statutes, the ineptitude of the pleader’s diction would not operate to nullify the proceedings. ’ ’”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]e regard the additional language in the information as being in the nature of explanatory text that was superfluous and did not make it fatally defective such as to warrant reversal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith 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.