Baker v. Ploetz’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Frost-Benco Electric Ass'n v. Minnesota Public Utilities Commission · Hubred v. Control Data Corp. · Seidl v. Trollhaugen, Inc. · City of Minneapolis v. Richardson · Conover v. Northern States Power Co.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the liability of a law firm under this statute is based not on its knowledge of or participation in the fraud, but on its employee's violation of the statute while acting in the scope of employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baker v. Ploetz
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.