Baker v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2004 · most notably Oakes Farming Ass'n v. Martinson Bros. (1982), Angus Hunt Ranch, Inc. v. Reb, Inc. (1978)
23 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 Boone v. Templeman · Waldron v. Harvey · Monson v. Bragdon · Larsen Sheep Co. v. Sjogren · J. W. Denio Milling Co. v. Malin
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is now well established in law and in equity that forfeitures are not favored. Before one can declare a forfeiture it must appear that he has a clear right and then too he himself must be free from blame in the premises. Every reasonable presumption is against a forfeiture and every in-tendment and presumption is against a person seeking to enforce it. 17 C.J.S., Contracts, 407, page 896. Provisions for forfeiture may be waived and the courts are quick to take advantage of circumstances indicating such an intention. 17 C.J.S. 897, 409.”
3 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.