Baldwin v. Hutchison’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 1996
7 federal appellate · 17 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 Higham v. Harris · Calkins v. Sumner · Town Council of Cahaba v. Burnett · Thompson v. Peck · Stevens v. Rowe
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'witnesses, who are a necessary part of the judicial machinery, be privileged against any restraint, excepting that imposed by the penalty for perjury.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Giffin v. Summerlin
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.