Baker v. Fletcher’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2022
13 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 Powell v. McCormack · Stump v. Sparkman · Tenney v. Brandhove · Nixon v. Fitzgerald · Clinton v. Jones
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“General Assembly must expressly manifest its desire that a statute apply retroactively.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The parties concede that the General Assembly has the authority to adjust the salaries of its employees at any time. Included within that authority is the power to adjust annual increments. Therefore, even if the Appellants are correct that they had a right to the statutory five percent increment, the General Assembly had authority to adjust their pay to meet its fiscal objectives. The intent of the General Assem bly was to appropriate money to fund an identical increment for all employees. To interpret the budget bill otherwise would be to ignore the plain meaning of the budget bill, the clear intent of the General Assembly, and our precedents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is beyond dispute that the General Assembly possesses power to suspend statutes.... Prevailing precedent of this Court provides that the General Assembly may also suspend statutes in a budget bill.”
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.