21 Cal. 3d 841 - Cooper v. Bray’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 38 Cal. 3d 137 - Fein v. Permanente Medical Group (1985), 22 Cal. 3d 584 - Hawkins v. Superior Court (1978)
94 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 3 Cal. 3d 875 - Foreman & Clark Corp. v. Fallon · 8 Cal. 3d 855 - Brown v. Merlo · 19 Cal. 3d 705 - Newland v. Board of Governors · Lorch v. Eglin · 16 Cal. 3d 514 - Schwalbe v. Jones
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a serious and genuine judicial inquiry into the correspondence between the classification and the legislative goals.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“` restrained ' equal protection standard of review”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“can realistically be ascribed to the Legislature.”
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.