Baker v. . Drake’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2006 · most notably Richardson v. Shaw (1908), Galigher v. Jones (1889)
8 federal appellate · 77 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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.
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘‘An amount sufficient to indemnify the party injured for the loss which is a natural, reasonable, and approximate result of the wrongful act complained of, and which a proper degree of prudence on the part of the plaintiff would not have averted, is the measure of damages which jurors are usually instructed to award except in cases where punitive damages are allowable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rivinus v. Langford“has no right to be placed in a better position than (it) would be if the wrong had not been done,”
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.