Baker v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Bush v. Holmes (2006), Hart v. State (2015)
64 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 Rodriguez v. Popular Democratic Party · Lemons v. Old Hickory Council, Boy Scouts of America, Inc. · State v. Conner · State Ex Rel. Martin v. Preston · Hobbs v. County of Moore
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A statute] will not be declared invalid unless its unconstitutionality be determined beyond reasonable doubt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““[U]nder the doctrine of expressio unius est exclusio alterius, the expression of specific disqualifications implies the exclusion of any other disqualifications.” This doctrine is a commonly used tool of statutory construction, but . . . we have found no North Carolina case in which this doctrine has been used to interpret our Constitution. Perhaps this dearth of authority can be attributed to the fact that this doctrine flies directly in the face of one of the underlying principles of North Carolina constitutional law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Unless the Constitution expressly or by necessary implication restricts the actions of the legislative branch, the General Assembly is free to implement legislation as long as that legislation does not offend some specific constitutional provision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.