Baker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably 397 So. 2d 648 - Palmes v. State (1981), Mathis v. State (1903)
2 federal appellate · 28 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.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was in such a physical condition or state of health as made the assault upon him fatal in its consequences, and that the effect of that assault, acting directly or indirectly upon that condition, brought to a close a life which but for it would have lasted longer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in other words, the fact that it could not reasonably have occurred to the defendant, or did not occur to him, that death was a probable result of the act, does not prevent a conviction of manslaughter in this degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it would be very improbable that two blows upon the face ... should produce death,”
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.