Baker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably 178 Ga. App. 742 - Whisnant v. State (1986), Braley v. State (2002)
61 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 United States v. Mazurie · Jordan v. De George · Johnson v. State · Patterson v. State · Sprouse v. State
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The admission of evidence is a matter which rests largely within the sound discretion of the trial judge." [Cit.] However, "[t]he Georgia rule favors the admission of any relevant evidence, no matter how slight its probative value," [cits.], and evidence is relevant if it renders the desired inference more probable than it would be without the evidence. [Cit.].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hudson v. State · Anderson v. State“Black's Law Dictionary defines disfigurement as that which impairs or injures the appearance of a person, and defines serious as grave, or great. Baker v. State, 246 Ga. 317, 318 (2), 271 S.E.2d 360 (1980).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“person commits the offense of aggravated battery when he or she maliciously causes bodily harm to another by ... seriously disfiguring his or her body or a member thereof.”
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.