Baker v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably Colasanto v. Life Insurance Co. of North America (1996), Mastin v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MOBILE, ETC. (1965)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 Ralls v. Johnson · Fowlkes v. Clay · Kimbrough v. Dickinson · Clark v. Campbell · Schowalter v. Schowalter
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[I]t is not to be presumed that the testator intended to die intestate as to any portion of his property, unless the contrary intention is so plain as to compel a different conclusion.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Werneth v. Hanly · Ide v. Harris
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.