Baldwin v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1851
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2000
18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when it is not firmly attached to the building, and can be moved without injury to it, or to the machinery itself [but such machinery] is not necessarily personal property [because that] depends upon the manner of its connexion with the realty [and] where this is not [shown] it may as well be presumed, that it was so affixed as to constitute it, while thus connected, a part of the building, as otherwise.”
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.