Baker v. Mann’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
June 1997
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Thiel v. Dove · McClain v. Anderson
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the present case the mayor and aldermen were discharging a public duty in asking the prosecuting attorney to initiate an investigation of former pubbc employees’ possible mishandhng of public records, public property, and pubbc funds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Minor v. Failla
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.