Baker v. Varser’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably In Matter of Rogers (1979), State v. Mems (1972)
62 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 Social Security Board v. Nierotko · National Labor Relations Board v. Virginia Electric & Power Co. · Baltimore or Co v. United States · Bradwell v. The State · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person does not have a natural or constitutional right to practise law; it is a privilege or franchise to be earned by hard study and compliance with the qualifications for admission to practise law prescribed by law. * * * By virtue of its police power a state is authorized to establish qualifications for admission to practise law in its jurisdiction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Application of Avery““As long as there is evidence in the record which rationally justifies a finding that the applicant has failed to establish his moral fitness to practice law, this Court cannot substitute its judgment for that of the Board of Law Examiners.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Matter of Rogers
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.