Baker v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 1960
1 federal appellate · 11 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Hence it is that, when the price is inadequate and possession has not been delivered to the purchaser, but was retained by the vendor, it has uniformly been considered and held that the transaction was not a sale, but a mere security, indeed, a sort of pignorative contract, upon which the law looks with suspicion, for the protection of the embarrassed and unfortunate debtor against the rapacity of his ravenous creditor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackson v. Golson
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.