Baker v. Fryar’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Fortier v. Dona Anna Plaza Partners (1984), Howell Ex Rel. Howell v. Burk (1977)
6 federal appellate · 28 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 Mastro Plastics Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Schipper v. Levitt & Sons, Inc. · 55 Cal. 2d 857 - Stewart v. Cox · Thompson v. Anderman · Strakos v. Gehring
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the contractor should not be liable if he merely carefully carried out the plans, specifications and directions given him, at least where the plans are not so obviously dangerous that no reasonable man would follow them and ... if the owner discovers the danger, or it is obvious to him, his responsibility supersedes that of the contractor.”
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.