Baker v. Ducker’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably Episcopal Church Cases (2009), 39 Cal. 2d 121 - Rosicrucian Fellowship v. Rosicrucian Fellowship Non-Sectarian Church (1952)
27 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 Watson v. Jones · Kniskern v. Lutheran Churches of St. John's & St. Peter's
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is thus made clear that the property in question was held by the Reformed Church in trust for its members, and the defendants, even though they constituted a majority of the members, had no right and no power to divert it to the use of another and different church organization.”
1 later decision 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.