Franklin v. Berger’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably Blakeslee Arpaia Chapman, Inc. v. EI Constructors, Inc. (1997), State v. Metz (1994)
73 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 City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Dandridge v. Williams · Reynolds v. Sims · Dunn v. Blumstein · Ross v. Moffitt
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The concept of equal protection under both the federal and state constitutions has been traditionally viewed as requiring the uniform treatment of persons standing in the same relation to the governmental action questioned or challenged.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“group, it will be subjected to strict scrutiny and will be set aside unless it is justified by a compelling state interest. (Citations omitted). Franklin v. Berger , supra, 595. CT Page 11282 Our Supreme Court concluded that”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he equal protection provisions of the federal and state constitutions have the same meaning and limitations.”
2 later decisions 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.