Brown v. Hoblitzell’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2010 · most notably Colten v. Commonwealth of Kentucky (1972), Workman v. Commonwealth (1968)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 Cole v. State of Arkansas · People v. Moran · Skaggs v. Fyffe, Judge · May v. Commonwealth · Masonic Widows & Orphans Home & Infirmary v. City of Louisville
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In enacting laws, the Legislature is presumed to take cognizance of the existing statutes and the condition of the law so that when the statute under consideration is ambiguous, the new enactment is to be construed in connection and in harmony with the existing laws as a part of a general and uniform system of jurisprudence. Button v. Hikes, 296 Ky. 163 , 176 S.W.2d 112 , 150 A.L.R. 779 ; Reynolds Metal Co. v. Glass, 302 Ky. 622 , 195 S.W.2d 280 . Apparent conflicts or repug-nancies between statutes on the same general subject enacted at different times should be reconciled in the light of the existing statutes and Constitution. Cawood v. Coleman, 294 Ky. 858 , 172 S.W.2d 548 ; Burbank v. Sinclair Prairie Oil Co., 304 Ky. 833 , 202 S.W.2d 420 . If the conflict cannot be reconciled, the latter statute controls. Butcher v. Adams, 310 Ky. 205 , 220 S.W.2d 398 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.