Baker v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Sanborn v. Commonwealth (1988), Cherry v. Director, State Board of Corrections (1981)
5 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 Yarbrough v. Commonwealth · Williams v. Commonwealth · Mullins v. Commonwealth · Robinson v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Gray
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In the present case the accused had participated in the selection of a jury and were willing to risk their chances with the jury thus selected but the action of the trial court compelled them to assume the additional peril of being tried by a different jury."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sanborn“No person shall, for the same offense, be twice put in jeopardy of his life or limb ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.