United States v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
577 F.2d 1147 · 1978
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2011 · most notably Vasquez v. United States (1981), United States v. Vasquez (1980)
31 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Jones v. United States · Draper v. United States · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there might be an armed accomplice in the house who observing the arrest ... would fire on them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.