Baker v. Missouri’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
99 federal appellate · 10 district · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 230 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2007 · most notably Schreiber Distributing Co. v. Serv-Well Furniture Co. (1986), Matter of Baby M. (1988)
99 federal appellate · 10 district · 78 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Morissette v. United States · Enmund v. Florida
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 230 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The capital murder was committed against any peace officer, corrections employee, or fireman while engaged in the performance of his official duty....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he evidence was sufficient for a rational trier of fact to find beyond a reasonable doubt that appellant knew Erson was a police officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.