Baldwin v. Trimble’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably Maryland Classified Employees Ass'n v. Anderson (1977), Mayor of Baltimore v. Chesapeake Marine Railway Co. (1964)
38 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Board of Supervisors v. City of Lincoln · Burbank v. . Fay · Mayor of Baltimore v. Frick · City of Peoria v. Johnston · City of Cincinnati v. Evans
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In that event, such cases [of abandonment], as observed by Judge Dillon, ‘will form a law unto themselves,’ and will ‘not fall within the legal operation of limitation enactments. * * * ‘There is no danger,’ he continues, ‘in recognizing the principle of an estoppel in pais as applicable to such cases, as this leaves the Court to decide the question, not by the mere lapse of time, but by all the circumstances of the case, to hold the public estopped or not, as right and justice may require.’ ””
1 later decision 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.