State v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably State v. Metz (1994), Bowman v. 1477 Central Avenue Apartments, Inc. (1987)
37 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 San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · McDonald v. Board of Election Comm'rs of Chicago · Smith v. Cahoon · State v. Carter · State Ex Rel. Dorothea Dix Hospital v. Davis
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“recognize the principle that the legislature has broad discretion in the exercise of its power to enact legislation and that its judgment in establishing statutory classifications will be set aside only where no grounds can be conceived to justify them. (Citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The distinctions drawn by a challenged statute must bear some rational relationship to a legitimate state end and will be set aside in violation of the equal protection clause only if based on reasons totally unrelated to the pursuit of that goal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not related to comparative financial ability or need for treatment.”
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.