Kentucky Bldg. Commission v. Effron’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Roe v. Kervick (1964), 44 Wis. 2d 201 - State Ex Rel. Warren v. Reuter (1969)
32 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Hager v. Kentucky Children's Home Society · Barker v. Crum · Nichols v. Henry · District Board of Tuberculosis Sanitarium Trustees v. City of Lexington · Sherrard v. Jefferson County Board of Education
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Manifestly, the drafters of our Constitution did not intend to go so far as to prevent a public benefit, like a hospital in which the followers of all faiths and creeds are admitted, from receiving State aid merely because it was originally founded by a certain denomination whose members now serve on its board of trustees.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No preference shall ever be given by law to any religious sect, society or denomination; nor to any particular creed, mode of worship or system of ecclesiastical polity”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * the hospitals are open to the public of all creeds and faiths [such a situation obtains in the instant case by operation of the statute] * * *. Religion is not taught in these hospitals * * *. The fact that members of the governing boards of these hospitals, which perform a recognized public service to all * * * are all of one religious faith does not signify that the money alloted the hospitals is to aid their particular denomination. On the contrary, the governing boards of such hospitals are but the channels through which the funds flow. Courts will look to the use to which these funds are put rather than to the conduits through which they run * * *." (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision 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.