Baar v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2018 · most notably Bandini Petroleum Co. v. Superior Court (1931), Kirk v. Culley (1927)
84 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 Windsor v. McVeigh · Ex parte Reed · Zappettini v. Buckles · McDougald v. Hulet · Schwarz v. Superior Court
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The relief granted to the plaintiff, if there be no answer, cannot exceed that which he shall have demanded in his complaint; but in any other ease, the court may grant him any relief consistent with the case made by the complaint and embraced within the issue.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lorraine v. Lorraine“'it is still limited in its modes of procedure, and in the extent and character of its judgments. It must act judicially in all things, and cannot then transcend the power conferred by the law.'”
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.