State v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably State v. Pellegrino (1984), Benson v. State (1980)
26 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Duren v. Missouri · People v. Washington · State v. Adams · State v. Glover · State v. Moore
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“absolve himself from the consequences of his actions by simply running away from the seene of his crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stallman · State v. Martin“The significant factor is whether the death was the natural and proximate result of the acts of the appellant or of an accomplice. Of course, an independent intervening cause might relieve appellant of criminal responsibility for the killing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. O'DELL
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.