People v. Baca’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2025
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 Abujasen v. United States · Lipsett Steel Products, Inc. v. Mosley · People v. Botham · 33 Colo. App. 92 - Transamerica Insurance Co. v. Pueblo Gas & Fuel Co. · Smith v. District Court for the Fourth Judicial District, State of Colorado, Division 6
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For the purpose of introducing the prior testimony of a witness, the witness' [sic] inability to remember a statement is tantamount to a denial that he made the statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. People
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.