Baker v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
August 2015
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Turner v. Commonwealth · Hubbard v. Henrico Ltd. Partnership · Cherrix v. Commonwealth · Alger v. Commonwealth · Farrakhan v. Com.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the language of a statute is unambiguous, courts are bound by the plain meaning of that language and may not assign a construction that amounts to holding that the General Assembly did not mean what it actually has stated,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rowland v. Com.
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.