Commonwealth v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably Commonwealth v. Ulatoski (1977), Commonwealth v. Morales (1985)
4 federal appellate · 45 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Irvin v. Dowd · Mooney v. Holohan · Moore v. Illinois
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Counts One and Two—Aggravated Assault Intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causing serious bodily injury to another under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life. Counts Three and Four—Aggravated Assault Intentionally or knowingly causing bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon. Counts Five and Six—Simple Assault Intentionally, knowingly or recklessly causing bodily injury to another. Counts Seven and Eight—Simple Assault Negligently causing bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon. Counts Nine and Ten—Recklessly Endangering Recklessly engaging in conduct which places or may place another person in danger of death or serious bodily injury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Despite the above-mentioned precedent, we believe the inherent dangers outweigh the possible benefit to be derived therefrom. Accordingly, we hold that while there was no abuse of discretion by the trial court in the instant case, we suggest in the future that this practice should not be followed. (Emphasis added.) Id. at 397-398 , 353 A.2d at 414 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Upon retiring for deliberations, the jury shall not be permitted to have a transcript of any trial testimony, nor a copy of any written confession by the defendant, nor a copy of the information or indictment. Otherwise, upon retiring, the jury may take with it such exhibits as the trial judge deems proper.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.