Baker v. Laird’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2002
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Goodwin v. Laird · United States ex rel. Barr v. Resor · 313 F. Supp. 957 - Andre v. Resor · Milton v. Commanding General
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Requests for discharge after entering military service will not be accepted when— (1) Based solely on conscientious objection which existed, but which was not claimed prior to induction, enlistment, or entry on active duty or active duty for training.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Adams v. Davidson
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.