Baker v. Cureton’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1961 · most notably Roth v. Union Nat. Bank of Bartlesville (1916), Jones v. Prairie Oil & Gas Co. (1927)
23 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 Eaves v. Mullen · In Re the Estate & Guardianship of Eikerenkotter · Cox v. Boyce · Byers v. Fowler · Monastes v. Catlin
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Before making the appointment the judge must cause such notice as he deems reasonable to be given to the relatives of the minor residing in the county and to any person having care of such minor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * The facts which entitle such person to appeal must be shown by an affidavit which must be filed with the notice of appeal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Davis' Estate
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.