Swigart v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
229 U.S. 187 · 1913
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 20 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1982 · most notably Webster v. Fall (1925), United States v. Stafoff (1923)
33 federal appellate · 20 district · 5 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBaker v. Swigart (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. Southern Pacific Co. · United States v. Goldenberg · Fairbank v. United States · Hamilton v. Rathbone · Lake County v. Rollins
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. The phrase is not expressly .defined and being general in its terms is not necessarily limited to building, but may include the preservation and maintenance of what has been built.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.