Baker v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2017
3 federal appellate · 6 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 Schneble v. Florida · Glidden Company v. Zdanok Et Al. · M. A. P. v. Ryan · Hoffa v. United States · Cella v. United States
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“leads to the dilemma of which instruction do we presume the jury obeyed. Did they obey the specific ■ instruction that they ‘must’ convict if the government disproved [the defendant’s] claim of self-defense; or did they, in spite of that specific instruction, somehow obey the general instructions that the government bears the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt on all elements of the offense?”
2 later decisions 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.