Baldwin v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2000
9 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 Roanoke Hospital Ass'n v. Doyle & Russell, Inc. · Atkinson v. Jackson Bros. · Tenneco Oil Company v. Padre Drilling Company · Linch v. Paris Lumber and Grain Elevator Co. · Arnold v. Caprielian
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) A consumer may maintain an action if he has been adversely affected by any of the following: “(1) the use or employment by any person of an act or practice declared to be unlawful by Section 17.46 of this subchapter; “(b) In a suit filed under this section, each consumer who prevails may obtain: “(1) three times the amount of actual damages plus court costs and attorneys’ fees reasonable in relation to the amount of work expended; .... ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Baldwin
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.