Baker v. Schofield’s Empirical Analysis
243 U.S. 114 · 1917
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions (40 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1981 · most notably Neil v. Biggers (1972), International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States (1977)
32 federal appellate · 11 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. Schofield (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on National Bank v. Matthews · Antoine Michoud v. Peronne Bernardine Girod · Alexander Magruder v. Samuel a Drury · Reynolds v. First Nat Bank of Crawfordsville Indiana · National Bank v. Whitney
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when two courts have reached the same conclusion on a question of fact, their finding will not be disturbed unless it is clear that their conclusion was erroneous.”
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.