Roberts v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1994
1 federal appellate · 13 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 Consolidated School District No. 1 v. Wright · Benton v. Board of Education of Cumberland County · Sheffield v. Lovering
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.
““As respects the driver of the motor bus, he was responsible in tort ' for his negligent acts in the operation of the bus which proximately resulted in injury to one of the passengers. In the operation of the bus he was under a duty to exercise extraordinary care for the safety of passengers.””
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.