King v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 1995 · most notably Jefferson County v. Cole (1924), Shaw v. Fox (1932)
2 district · 29 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 Roberts v. City of Louisville · Chase v. Proprietors of the Revere House · State v. Marshall · Fulton v. State · Respass v. Comth. ex rel. Atty. Gen'l
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Special legislation’ is such as relates either to particular persons, places, or things, or to persons, places, or things which, though not particularized, are separated by any method of selection from the whole class to which the law might, but for such legislation, be applied.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shaw v. Fox
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.