Baker v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2004
2 federal appellate · 17 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 Neely v. Neely · 74 Cal. App. 3d 591 - In Re Marriage of Hopkins · Grishman v. Grishman · Claunch v. Claunch · Meyer v. Meyer
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the techniques of requiring one or both of the parties to perform certain acts ... may be the only sensible way of carrying out a division of marital property ‘in such proportions as the court deems just after considering all relevant factors’ as section 722-A requires. That technique would be preferable in many cases to requiring the sale of all or part of the marital property in order to achieve a just division.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the extent of the wife's contribution to the marriage is relevant not to an award of alimony under 19 M.R.S.A. § 721 (1981), but to a disposition of property under 19 M.R.S.A. § 722-A (1981).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Henriksen v. Cameron
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.