Fisk v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 1990 · most notably Dawson v. Wright, Mayor, Etc. (1955), Rooker v. Bruce (1908)
37 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 Kent v. Lawson · Jeffersonville, Madison, & Indianapolis Railroad v. Riley · Columbus, Chicago, & Indiana Central Railway Co. v. Powell · Buck v. Havens · Briggs v. Sneghan
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There was no demurrer to the complaint, and consequently no issue of law in reference thereto. There was no answer to the complaint, and consequently no issue of fact. The failure of the appellee to demur or answer the complaint was a confession that the complaint was true as to the facts stated, and sufficient in law to entitle the appellant to the relief demanded. The right of the appellant to the immediate possession of the land described was admitted, and as to that there was nothing to try. The failure to answer did not admit the amount of the damages claimed, and the appellant was therefore required to prove such damages.””
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.