Baker v. Wade’s Empirical Analysis
743 F.2d 236 · 1984
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2020
9 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 2252 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2403 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Trbovich v. United Mine Workers · Board of Ed. of Central School Dist. No. 1 v. Allen · United Airlines, Inc. v. McDonald · Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe · Sam Fox Publishing Company v. United States
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The laws of Texas vest in district and county attorneys the exclusive responsibility and control of criminal prosecutions and certain other types of proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meshell v. State“the attorney general of the state must also be served with a copy of the proceeding and is entitled to be heard”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Morales“is bound by his oath of office to enforce the State’s laws” and”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.