State ex rel. Baker v. Bird’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently August 1988 · most notably Krauthoff v. Krauthoff (1915), 10 Ill. 2d 269 - Cooper v. Hinrichs (1957)
71 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 Winkler v. Lietman · Gist v. Rackliffe-Gibson Construction Co. · In re Ford · Gray v. Parke · City of St. Louis v. Hollrah
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . While the rule announced in the two cases last cited is undoubtedly sound law, I am not willing to concede that a probate court has jurisdiction to entertain a suit or proceeding, the sole basis of which is a demand for equitable relief, even though such relief should incidentally pertain to some matter of probate jurisdiction. ’ ’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Probate courts are specifically vested with jurisdiction to do certain things, and we think they should be permitted to invoke equitable principles in adjudicating all issues which, by the Constitution or statute, are expressly confided to their care.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Franz'Estate“The Constitution and the statutes have particularized the several things which may be done by probate courts, and we think their jurisdiction is necessarily confined to such suits and proceedings as they have been granted power to adjudicate.”
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.