State v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2007
15 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 Employers Casualty Company v. Tilley · Douglass v. Blount · Smith v. State · Galindo v. State · Cook v. Irion
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The relationship between a client and an attorney . . . [is] one of `[t]he most abundant good faith; absolute and perfect candor or openness and honesty; the absence of any concealment or deception, however slight.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * The good faith defense should apply only in those situations where the attorney exercises his best judgment believing that his decision is in the best interest of his client. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Archer 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.