Baker v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Lenzen v. Miller (1941), 17 Ill. App. 2d 481 - Lawless v. Lawless (1958)
7 federal appellate · 21 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 Davis v. . Crandall · Tomlinson v. Bury · In re Estate of Woodworth · Martin · Stilphen
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.
“The distinction between specific and general legacies is that the former singles out the particular thing which the testator intends the donee to have, no regard being had to its value, while the latter are payable out of the general assets, the chief element of the gift being its value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wexman v. Wexman
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.