Fritsch v. Wohlgemuth’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dandridge v. Williams · New York State Department of Social Services v. Dublino · Stottlemyer v. Stottlemyer · 348 F. Supp. 290 - Dublino v. New York State Department of Social Services
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... [A] State does not violate the Equal Protection Clause merely because the classifications made by its laws are imperfect. If the classification has some ‘reasonable basis,’ it does not offend the Constitution simply because the classification ... in practice ... results in some inequality.”
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.