Baker v. Hancock’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 1991 · most notably 174 Ind. App. 439 - Bassett v. Glock (1977), Hunter v. Burroughs (1918)
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 Nave v. Flack · Thompson v. Bowie · Small v. Howard · Tefft v. Wilcox · Nelson v. Harrington
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The measure of the duty of a general practitioner is that he does not undertake absolutely to cure, but is bound to possess and exercise the average degree of skill possessed and exercised by members of the profession practicing in similar localities ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Centman v. Cobb
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.