State v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably State v. Bishop (1997), State v. Davis (1998)
44 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Estelle v. McGuire · Lockett v. Ohio · Holland 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f you . . . have a reasonable doubt as to one or more of these things, it would be your duty to return a verdict of guilty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a lapsus linguae not called to the attention of the trial court when made will not constitute prejudicial error when it is apparent from a contextual reading of the charge that the jury could not have been misled by the instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“consider any mitigating circumstance found by the juror in Issue Two; and (4) the trial court erred in instructing the jury that it should answer Issue Three”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Burr
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.