Barnes v. Jacobsen’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently June 2014
3 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 Nourse v. City of Russellville · Weber City Sanitation Commission v. Craft · District Board of Tuberculosis Sanitarium Trustees v. City of Lexington · Smith v. Allied Bldg. Credits, Inc. · City of Covington v. Sanitation District No. 1 of Campbell & Kenton Counties
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In 1960 the Board of Health adopted a regulation pursuant to KRS 212.230(1) (c) which provided that no private sewage disposal system should be installed without a permit first having been obtained from the Boone County Health Department. It stated the conditions upon which the permit would be issued. Appellants question the validity of that regulation. The evidence showed the present population in the district and the expected substantial increase in population. There was testimony that presently septic tanks, cesspools and privies exist throughout the county and that a large percentage of the cisterns and wells which are being used are not free from contamination. It showed that contamination of any water supply may result from seepage of sewage into the ground. As the population becomes more dense the danger to health will be increased. Ordinances regulating matters affecting public health (Schaeffler v. City of Park Hills, Ky., 279 S.W.2d 21 ) and requiring the installation of modern facilities have been approved. Nourse v. City of Russellville, 257 Ky. 525 , 78 S.W.2d 761 ; City of Louisville v. Thompson, Ky., 339 S.W.2d 869 ; Cassidy, et al. v. City of Bowling Green, et al., Ky., 368 S.W.2d 318 . “The Boone County Board of Health obtained its power from KRS Chapter 212. It was authorized by KRS 212.230 (1) (c) to ‘Adopt, except as otherwise provided by law, such rules and regulations not in conflict with the rules and regulations of the State Board of Health, as may be”
1 later decision 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.