Baker v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably 892 So. 2d 354 - Dzwonkowski v. Sonitrol of Mobile, Inc. (2004), Schlarb v. Lee (2006)
31 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 514 So. 2d 1373 - Branch v. Southtrust Bank of Dothan, N.A. · Ex parte Hardy · Baker v. Bennett · Louisville N. R. Co. v. Webb Furniture 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[c]ertifications under Rule 54(b) should be entered only in exceptional cases and should not be entered routinely.'”
5 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.