Baker v. Combs’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 1959 · most notably Henry v. Parrish (1948), Graham v. Jewell (1924)
39 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 Bates v. City of Monticello · Muir's Adm'rs v. City of Bardstown · Nevin v. Roach · Dorain v. Walters · Pinkston v. Watkins
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * # It expressed the purpose of the council to change the method from an appointive to an elective mode of election, and was an ordinance which the council had the power to make effective by adoption, 60 days before ‘any November election.’ Section 3504, supra. In this the statute authorizing it is very dissimilar to Section 3484, supra, relating to an ordinance providing for the election of a mayor, as that statute required the ordinance to be enacted ‘in the year’ in which the appointment or election was due to be made. The ordinance changing the method of selecting a chief of police was evidently intended to control the manner of so doing until repealed, which the council may do at any time 60 days preceding any November election, and is to be construed as held in Sally v. Baker, 180 Ky. 833 , 203 S. W. 724 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cox v. Preston““Ordinance. “Chief of Police of the City of Hazard. “The city council of the city of Hazard do ordain as follows: That the chief of police of the city of Hazard shall be elected by the qualified voters of the city of Hazard at the regular November election, 1919, and his compensation shall be fixed by the ■council.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cox v. Preston
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.