Commonwealth v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2010
14 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 Corace v. BALINT (Et Al.) · Gossman v. Lower Chanceford Township Board of Supervisors · Tunison v. Commonwealth · Whitney v. Jersey Shore Borough · Winton v. Morss
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If [a] final decision [by the Commission] is in favor of the aggrieved person, the commission shall make such order as it deems appropriate to assure the person such rights as are accorded him by this act.”
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.