State v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 district · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Doe v. Poritz (1995), City of Edmonds v. Oxford House, Inc. (1995)
2 district · 91 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Moore v. City of East Cleveland · Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas · Minnesota v. Alexander, Secretary of the Army, Et Al. · State ex rel. Markley v. Baldwin · Southern Burlington County N.A.A.C.P. v. Township of Mount Laurel
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Accordingly, we hold that zoning regulations which attempt to limit residency based upon the number of unrelated individuals present in a single non-profit housekeeping unit cannot pass constitutional muster.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]ne (1) or more persons occupying a dwelling unit as a single non-profit housekeeping unit,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The fatal flaw in attempting to maintain a stable residential neighborhood through the use of criteria based upon biological or legal relationships is that such classifications operate to prohibit a plethora of uses which pose no threat to the accomplishment of the end sought to be achieved. Moreover, such a classification system legitimizes many uses which defeat that goal. Plainfield’s ordinance, for example, would prohibit a group of five unrelated “widows, widowers, older spinsters or bachelors — or even of judges” from residing in a single unit within the municipality. [Id. at 107 (citation omitted).]”
3 later decisions 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.