Baker v. McKnight’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably Perotti v. Ferguson (1983), Patterson v. V & M Auto Body (1992)
67 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 Conley v. Gibson · Erie Co v. Tompkins · Foman v. Davis · Peterson v. Teodosio · Thompson v. Peck
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the requirements of Civ.R 15(C) for relation back are met, an otherwise timely complaint in negligence which designates as a sole defendant one who dies after the cause of action accrued but before the complaint was filed has met the requirements of the statute of limitations and commenced an action pursuant to Civ.R. 3(A), and such complaint may be amended to substitute an administrator of the deceased defendant's estate for the original defendant after the limitations period has expired, when service on the administrator is obtained within the one-year, post-filing period provided for in Civ.R. 3(A).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A civil action is commenced by filing a complaint with the court, if service is *Page 8 obtained within one year from such filing upon a named defendant, or upon an incorrectly named defendant whose name is later corrected pursuant to Civ. R. 15(C), or upon a defendant identified by a fictitious name whose name is later corrected pursuant to Civ. R. 15(D).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Because a party must actually or legally exist 'one deceased cannot be a party to an action,' and a suit brought against a dead person is a nullity.”
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.