3 Md. App. 251 - Baker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently May 2002 · most notably Bartholomey v. State (1972), Davis v. State (1993)
59 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 Mapp v. Ohio · Williams v. People of State of New York · Townsend v. Burke · Giles v. State · Scott v. State
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * where the punishment is grossly and inordinately disproportionate to the offense to such an extent that the sentence is evidently dictated not by a sense of public duty, but by passion, prejudice, ill-will or any other unworthy motive . . .””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“<<* * * we are satisfied from the record before us that Mrs. Williams’ identification was predicated on her close observation of appellant’s posture, stance, height and weight, and of his voice which she heard again at the line-up, and hot alone or primarily on the basis of the clothing that he was wearing in the line-up.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. State
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.