Baker v. Weedon’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
states following
May 2000
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kelly v. Neville · Riley v. Norfleet · Lambdin v. LAMBDIN
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By the weight of authority, equity has the power to order a judicial sale of land affected with a future interest and an investment of the proceeds in trust for the benefit of all parties in whom interests in the land were limited, where this is necessary for the preservation of all interests in the land.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. Breton
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.