State v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2001
15 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.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The degree of proof as to identity of stolen goods depends in some measure on time which elapsed between commission of the theft and receipt of the property by the accused, and if possession is not recent, stricter proof of identity is required than in case where possession is very recent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Love 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.