State v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2005
18 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Sandstrom v. Montana · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Cupp v. Naughten · Hankerson v. North Carolina
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.
““Generally, a killing is legally justified or excused when a person kills in self-defense, upon reasonable provocation. And the State must prove to you that this killing was unlawful in that, if you find that the defendant killed Mr. Granata, he did not do so in self defense, after Mr. Granata reasonably provoked him. it * * * “[B]efore that person can be found guilty of murder in this state, the State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he intended to kill. For example, if you find from the evidence in this case that the shooting of Mr. Granata was accidental, you can’t convict Mr. Cipriano because there’s no intent to kill when a person is killed accidentally.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cipriano
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.