Sammarco v. Boysa’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2009
8 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 State ex rel. Carter v. Harper · Opinion of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Bonnett v. Vallier · City of Chicago v. Rumpff · Tugman v. City of Chicago
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A perusal of these cases gives the impression that, in order to constitute equal protection of the law, laws must affect every man, woman, and child exactly alike. That this is not true is just as trite and fundamental as is the proposition that all persons are entitled to the equal protection of the law. “In the decisions above cited no weight was given to the power of the legislature to create classes germane to the purposes of the legislation and to provide that all persons within the class should be treated alike. There is a manifest difference between prohibiting the erection of undesirable buildings, or buildings to be devoted to undesirable purposes, within a given area, and compelling the destruction of buildings already constructed or prohibiting a continuance of the use to which they may presently be devoted. In the one case the owner has made expenditures in the construction of his building or in fitting up his premises for the use to which they are devoted, while in the other case no such expenditures have been incurred. This circumstance furnishes an unimpeachable basis for classification for the purposes of legislation such as we are construing.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Every law that takes away or impairs rights that have vested under existing laws is generally unjust. . .”
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.