Baker v. Reid’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
4 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Flamer v. State (1984), Claudio v. State (1991)
4 district · 36 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 Island Express, Inc. v. Frederick · Leftridge v. City of Seattle
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] trial court’s instructions will not be the basis for reversible error if they “are reasonably informative and not misleading, judged by common practices and standards of verbal communication.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We think the evidence sufficient to justify conclusions that defendant observed or should have observed the dangerous situation of decedent, and failed to take available and reasonable measures to avoid hitting him during a period when decedent’s way of escape from the danger was prevented because of his position with relation to the automobile which extended at an angle on the road.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McLenaghan v. Billow
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.