Stern v. Stern’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably Orr v. Orr (1979), Maloney v. Pac (1981)
63 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 Baker v. Carr · Reed v. Reed · Linda R. S. v. Richard D. · Frontiero v. Richardson · Royster Guano Co v. Commonwealth of Virginia
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To establish standing to challenge the constitutionality of a statute one must sustain "he burden of proving that the effect or impact of the challenged statute adversely affects a constitutionally protected right which he has. `This means a right which he proves that he has under the facts of his particular case and not merely under some possible or hypothetical set of facts not proven to exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“personal stake in the outcome of the controversy;”
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.