State v. Auclair’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably In Re Handy (2000), Clymer v. Webster (1991)
72 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 Nebbia v. People of State of New York · Ala Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States · Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan · Whitney v. People of State of California · Field v. Clark
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not prohibit legislative classification and the imposition of statutory restraints on one class which are not imposed on another. Metropolitan Casualty Ins. Co. v. Brownell, 294 U.S. 580, 583 , 79 L.Ed. 1070 , 55 Sup.Ct. 538, 540 . The State possesses a wide discretion in exercising this phase of its police power with the qualification that the classification must not be purely arbitrary or irrational, but based upon a real and substantial difference, having a reasonable relation to the subject of the particular legislation. [Citing numerous cases.] ‘A particular classification is not invalidated by the Fourteenth Amendment merely because inequality actually results. Every classification of persons or things for regulation by law produces inequality in some degree; but the law is not thereby invalidated * * * * unless the inequality produced be actually and palpably unreasonable and arbitrary.’ Bayside Fish Flour Co. v. Gentry, 297 U.S. 422, 429 , 80 L.Ed. 772 , 56 Sup.Ct. 513, 516 . The burden of proving that a legislative classification is essentially arbitrary and rests upon no reasonable basis is upon the party who asserts it, and it will not be declared invalid ‘unless viewed in the light of facts made known or generally assumed, it is of such a character as to preclude the assumption that the classification rests upon some rational basis within the knowledge or experience of the legislators. A statutory discr”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community, and not for the particular emolument or advantage of any single man, family, or set of men, who are a part only of that community;____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . be prescribed in terms definite enough to serve as a guide to those who have the duty imposed upon them.”
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.