Baker v. . Lorillard’s Empirical Analysis
1850
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2018
2 federal appellate · 12 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.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"I ... hold it to be the duty of every judge and every court to examine its own decisions, and the decisions of other courts without fear, and to revise them without reluctance. But when a question has been well considered and deliberately determined, whatever might have been the views of the court before which the question is again brought ... it is not at liberty to disturb or unsettle such decision, unless impelled by the most cogent reasons. "”
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.