Baker v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1963
16 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 Bertles v. . Nunan · Chandler v. Cheney · Pray v. Stebbins · Marburg v. Cole · White v. . Wager
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The common law, as modified by constitutional and statutory law, judicial decisions, and the condition and wants of the people, shall remain in force in aid of the general statutes of this state; but the rule of the common law, that statutes in derogation thereof shall be strictly construed, shall not be applicable to any general statute of this state; but all such statutes shall be liberally construed to promote their object.” (Gem Stat. 1868, ch. 119, § 3; Gen. Stat. 1901, § 8014.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Harrington v. Lowe
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.