Baker v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 1993 · most notably Overby v. Beach (1951), Sylvester v. Town of Ville Platte (1950)
2 federal appellate · 35 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 Kittredge v. Grau · Sanderson v. Frost · Le Bleu v. Savoie · Succession of Watkins · Locascio v. First State Bank & Trust Co.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We concede that plaintiff's objection to the admissibility of parol evidence in this case would have been good had the rights of a third party been involved, and that such evidence would not be permitted to show, to the prejudice of third persons, that the contract, was pignorative in character. Had a third party purchased the property from Ronaldson & Puckett Company, Ltd., such third party's rights would be fully protected, and parol evidence could not be adduced to show that the act of sale by which Ronaldson & Puckett acquired the property (this deed being regular on its face and by authentic act) was not a sale at all but only a pignorative contract or mortgage. Beard v. Nunn, 172 La. 155 , 133 So. 429 , and authorities therein cited.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"In the case here under consideration, Florence Ella Baker was not a third party relying on the faith of the public records, since she did not acquire the property by purchase or any other similar way, and any rights that she might have had therein must necessarily flow from, and be determined by, an acquisition by her husband of the property during the existence of the community of acquets and gains between them." (Emphasis ours).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"In so holding, this court made it clear that Kittredge, during his marriage, did not buy the corporation stock or acquire it in any similar way; in other words, that there was no acquisition under Article 2402 of the Revised Civil Code. * * *"”
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.