Baker v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
October 1996
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. Stanolind Oil & Gas Co. · Burkett v. Bayes · Broady v. Furray
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the water, left alone, would run as it ought to run, and was used to run from time immemorial,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.