Commonwealth v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
4 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 1948 · most notably Klein v. City of Louisville (1928), City of Louisville v. Kuhn (1940)
4 district · 28 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 Hager v. Walker · Sams v. Sams' Administrator · State v. Briggs · Commonwealth v. Grinstead · Kentucky Board of Pharmacy v. Cassidy
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'“And as the cities and towns of the state have been classified, we know of no good reason why legislation of this character should not be limited to' the classes of. cities in which there exist conditions. that seem to demand it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““An act imposing limitations upon the individual in the pursuit of a business that comes within the police power will not be condemned as class or discriminatory legislation because it is limited to one or more classes of cities.””
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.