Baker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2011
21 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 Jeffers v. United States · Bieghler v. State · Baker v. COMPTON · 171 Ind. App. 60 - State Ex Rel. Crooke v. Lugar · Lowery 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“give it a practical application, to construe it so as to prevent absurdity, hardship, or injustice, and to favor public convenience.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“All statutory language is deemed to have been used intentionally. Words or clauses in statutes are to be treated as surplusage only in the absence of any other possible course. Also, where a statute is subject to judicial interpretation, we will endeavor to give it a practical application, to construe it so as to prevent absurdity, hard ship, or injustice, and to favor public convenience.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Preston 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.