Baker v. Wade’s Empirical Analysis
769 F.2d 289 · 1985
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017 · most notably Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), Baker v. Wade (1986)
41 federal appellate · 5 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. § 2403 · 28 U.S.C. § 46 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Kentucky v. Graham · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · William Marbury v. James Madison · Hutto v. Finney
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this case where the district court has rejected binding Supreme Court authority, the circuit court is entitled to conclude as a matter of law that those interests were inadequately represented by those who failed to pursue the appeal and that the state officer seeking to intervene was a proper party to do so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as of the date of the entry of the district court's judgment, [the state district attorney] was a member of the [defendant] class, was enjoined by that judgment, and as district attorney was a proper official under Texas law to represent the state.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“deviate sexual intercourse with another individual of the same sex.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lawrence v. State · Baker v. Wade
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.