Baker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2008
20 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Davis v. Mississippi · Lawrence v. State · Brewer v. State · Rinard v. State
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is reasonable to presume the rape victim and a witness who saw appellant walk away from the victim's burning car to be credible persons, speaking reliably of facts within their knowledge. The probable cause affidavit stated the witness 'informed the affiant of facts and answers to the affiant's questions which were straight forward and which appeared to be true and accurate accounts to the best of their recollections.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clifford v. State“"It was incumbent upon the State to present evidence of the doctor or someone in authority present at the taking of the specimens from L.C. and to further demonstrate a chain of custody of the specimens to the laboratory where the testing was made and the conclusions drawn." (emphasis added) 449 N.E.2d at 1087 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fendley v. Ford“It is reasonable for an official of a bank branch which has been robbed to be the person who reports the robbery to the police.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clifford v. State
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.