Barrow v. Bradley’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently December 1967 · most notably Spahn v. Stewart (1937), Slavich v. Hamilton (1927)
3 federal appellate · 48 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 Overall v. City of Madisonville · Kingman v. City of Brockton · City of Lexington v. Thompson · Board of Trustees House of Reform v. City of Lexington · Ball v. Commonwealth
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That a reasonable use of public money for memorial buildings, monuments and other public ornaments, designed merely to inspire sentiments of patriotism or of respect for the memory of worthy individuals is for a public purpose that it hardly seems necessary to devote time to a discussion of this branch of the case.” Barrow v. Bradley, 190 Ky. 482 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““When, therefore, the power to create municipalities is vested in the state Legislature, the power is implied if not expressed to confer and define local legislative power, and is practically unlimited in the absence •of constitutional restrictions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Henry v. Parrish““It is apparent therefore that our state Legislature has express power to delegate to cities and towns all powers needful for local self-government.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Henry v. Parrish
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.