State v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2013 · most notably Baker v. Missouri (1982), Delo v. Stokes (1990)
16 federal appellate · 65 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1501 (Corporate and Criminal Fraud Accountability Act of 2002)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Lockett v. Ohio · Morissette v. United States · Swain v. State of Alabama · Taylor v. Louisiana
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“examination of the elements of homicides, notably the mental states, illustrates that it is second degree murder, not first degree murder, which would sufficiently test a jury's belief of the crucial facts for a conviction of capital murder”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he evidence was sufficient for a rational trier of fact to find beyond a reasonable doubt that appellant knew [the victim] was a police officer. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 , 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“First degree murder in Missouri requires proof of commission of a felony; capital murder does not. Therefore, first degree murder is not a lesser included offense of capital murder on their elements.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.