Glover v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
2 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Faulkner v. Keene (1931), Robinson v. Carroll (1934)
2 district · 51 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 Reynolds v. States · Davis v. Beason · Francois Fenelon v. The Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of Philadelphia · Russell v. Allen · William Fontain Administrator of Frederick Kohne Deceased v. William Ravenel
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all the rest, residue and remainder of [her] estate ... to The Mother Church - The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, in trust,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the purpose of more effectually promoting and extending the religion of Christian Science as taught by [Mrs. Eddy].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the balance of said income, and such portion of the principal as may be deemed wise,”
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.