Lewis v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2021 · most notably 135 S. Ct. 2584 - Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), In Re Marriage Cases (2008)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 91 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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
Applies 1 U.S.C. § 7
Relies on Turner v. Safley · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Plyler v. Doe · Loving 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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“committed same-sex couples [in New Jersey] must be afforded on equal terms the same rights and benefits enjoyed by married opposite-sex couples.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“full rights and benefits enjoyed by heterosexual married couples”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“whether persons of the same sex have a fundamental right to marry that is encompassed within the concept of liberty, guaranteed by Article I, Paragraph 1 of the New Jersey Constitution [or] . . . whether Article I, Paragraph I's equal protection guarantee requires that committed same-sex couples be given on equal terms the legal benefits and privileges awarded to married heterosexual couples and, if so, whether that guarantee also requires that the title of marriage, as opposed to some other term, define the committed same-sex legal relationship. [ Id. at 422-23 , 908 A. 2d 196 .]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.