Shaw v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 1971 · most notably Manning, Commissioner of Finance v. Sims (1948), Markendorf v. Friedman (1939)
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 Tumey v. State of Ohio · Brown-Forman Company v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · Weaver v. Palmer Bros. · Edmund Smiley v. State of Kansas · Wallach v. Rudolph
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Classification is a necessary feature and power of legislation, as it is impossible for any extensive code of laws to apply to every person or subject in the state.' City of Louisville v. Com., etc., 134 Ky. 488 , 121 S.W. 411 , 413 .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"No general rule can be stated by which a reasonable basis of Legislative classification may be predicated, nor can it always be determined by analogy. The basis of classification of every act must be considered singly in the light of certain fundamental principles which are generally accepted by the courts. In ascertaining and determining the constitutionality of an act, it is a fixed rule of the courts to resolve all doubts in its favor (Coleman v. Hurst, 226 Ky. 501 , 11 S.W.2d 133 ); nor will the courts inquire into and consider the practicability, the expediency, or the wisdom of the enactment. Coleman v. Hurst, supra. The only question to be determined by the court is one of constitutional inhibition, limitation, or restriction. State Budget Commission v. Lebus, 244 Ky. 700 , 51 S.W.2d 965 . Our Constitution does not delegate the power to make, nor does it prohibit the making of, classifications of subjects by the Legislature for legislative purposes, but merely prescribes inhibitions, limitations, or restrictions of the Legislature's power when making the classifications for legislative purposes (Rouse v. Johnson, 234 Ky. 473 , 28 S.W.2d 745 , 70 A.L.R. 1077 ), and the court is authorized to declare its classification invalid only when it contravenes or transgresses one or more of these inhibitions, limitations, or restrictions. State Board of Election Commissioners v. Coleman, 235 Ky. 24 , 29 S.W.2d 619 . The court is not at liberty to declare a legislative classifica”
2 later decisions 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.