Baker v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 1973 · most notably Hamilton v. Browning (1952), Harrington v. H. D. Lee Mercantile Co. (1934)
23 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 Birmingham Southern R. Co. v. Harrison · Standridge v. Martin · Whiddon v. Malone · Crider v. Yolande Coal & Coke Co. · Baker v. Elebash
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of obstructions, defect in the road or car or other supervening cause, the wreck of a car under the circumstances disclosed (overturned on curve) readily warrants an inference of negligence in operation.”
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.