Baker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The conclusion is reached that the construction to be given said statute is that it requires that the oath of office be recorded in the minutes of the court, in order that there might exist permanent evidence not only that the special judge took the oath of office but also permanent evidence of the oath that was actually taken. In the absence of any suggestion of injury, or of an opportunity on the part of the accused to attack the form of the oath of office if he so desired, we are unable to conclude that time of entry of the oath of office in the minutes was a requirement of the statute.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sixta v. State

2. “When a special judge is agreed upon by the parties, elected, or appointed as herein provided, the clerk shall enter in the minutes as a part of the proceedings in such cause a record showing: 1. That the judge of the court was disqualified, absent, or disabled to try the cause; 2. That such special judge (naming him) was by consent of the parties agreed upon, or elected or appointed; 3. That the oath of office prescribed by law was duly administered to such special judge.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Saylors v. State