Baker v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
November 1978
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strong v. Commonwealth · Moore v. Commonwealth
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * an affidavit to be sufficient to support the issuance of a search warrant must recite facts in respect to the description of the property to be searched to enable the officer serving the warrant to locate the property with certainty, and also to enable the Magistrate issuing the warrant to determine that the property to be searched is within his jurisdiction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pigg v. Commonwealth
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.