Hobbs v. Markey’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1997
4 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 Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · Darlington v. Board of Councilmen of Frankfort · Cayce v. City of Hopkinsville · McDermott v. Zoning Board of Appeals · State ex rel. Housing Authority of St. Louis County v. Wind
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The policy and spirit of the zoning law of this state ordains the gradual elimination of nonconforming uses, and the general intent of ordinances dealing with the subject matter is to hold nonconforming uses within strict limits; and any change effected, as subsection 2 of KRS 100.355 requires, must be ‘to another nonconforming use of the same or more restricted classification.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hofgesang v. McMakin
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.