Baker v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Romero v. Garcia · Ballard v. Ballard · Kribbs v. JACKSON · McOuatt v. McOuatt · Apodaca v. Hernandez
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule is that an unacknowledged deed is binding between the parties thereto, their heirs and representatives, and persons having actual notice of the instrument.”
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.