Baker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Meadows v. State (1987), Steel v. State (1969)
25 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 Pate v. State · Finley v. . Atlantic Transport Co. · Cole v. State · Teasley v. Thompson · Brooklyn Cooperage Company v. . the A. Sherman Lumber 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In 17 C.J. 1148, in discussing offenses against dead bodies, this appears: “At common law it was an offense to treat the dead human body indecently, and various specific offenses were recognized. Ordinarily it is a misdemeanor for one upon whom the duty is imposed of having a dead body buried to refuse or neglect to perform such duty. Wharton’s Criminal Law, 12th Ed., Vol. II, § 1704, says: “Indecency in treatment of a dead human body is an offense at common law, as an insult to public decency. Hence it is indictable to expose such a body without proper burial;...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dougan 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.