Bartlett v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 2019
5 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 Whittaker v. Thornberry · Ratliff v. Stanley · Lamb v. Clark, Jailer · King v. Ohio Valley Fire & Marine Insurance · Fidelity & Columbia Trust Co. v. Harkleroad
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.
“It is well-settled law in this and most other jurisdictions that the keeper of the prison must exercise ordinary care for the protection of his prisoner if there is reasonable ground to apprehend the danger to the prisoner. Cf. Lamb v. Clark , 282 Ky. 167 , 138 S.W.2d 350 ; Ratliff v. Stanley , 224 Ky. 819 , 7 S.W.2d 230 ; 41 Am. Jur. , Prisons and Prisoners, s 13; and 60 A.L.R.2d p. 879. The liability of state employees and departments of state government is recognized and provided for by KRS 44.070.”
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.