Baker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2010
16 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 Hoff v. Kempton · In Re Haggerty · Friedman v. Commissioner of Public Safety · McDonnell v. Commissioner of Public Safety · State v. Kelly
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.
“Finally, the state requests that our decision be applied prospectively. Generally, court rulings [of unconstitutionality] are given retroactive effect. However, we have given our rulings prospective effect in a number of criminal cases. ⅜ * * * [citing Hamm ]. Our analysis of the enhanced gross misdemeanor statutes closely tracks Hamm’s reasoning. * * * Defendants already tried under the enhanced gross misdemeanor statutes who did not contest the constitutionality of the statutes have waived their objections. Our decision shall apply prospectively to currently pending cases brought under the enhanced gross misdemeanor statutes in which the constitutionality of the statutes has been challenged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Neely
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.