Baker v. Wilder’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
December 1964
most recently cited
26 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Vincent v. Bullock · Goldsmith v. McCoy · Hightower v. Maritzky · Bremer v. North Central Texas Oil Co. · White v. Hodges
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In order for an acknowledgment by a landowner that his land is subject to certain mineral rights in favor of a person named in the acknowledgment to have the effect of interrupting the prescription by which such rights are extinguished the intention that the acknowledgment shall have that effect must be expressed in unmistakable terms."”
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.