State v. Trantham’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2005 · most notably McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher (1961), Still v. Lance (1971)
57 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 Magoun v. Illinois Trust & Savings Bank · Atchison Co v. Matthews · Sprout v. City of South Bend · Gorieb v. Fox · Hennington v. Georgia
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘They may prescribe different regulations for different classes, and discrimination as between classes is not such as to invalidate the legislative enactment. (Citing authority). The very idea of classification is inequality, so that inequality in no manner determines the matter of constitutionality. Bickett v. State Taw Commission, 177 N.C. 433 , 99 S.E. 415 ; Atchison, T. & S. F. R. Co. v. Matthews, 174 U.S. 96 , 19 S.Ct. 609 , 43 L.Ed. 909 . The one requirement is that the ordinance must affect all persons similarly situated or engaged in the same business without discrimination. City of Springfield v. Smith, 322 Mo. 1129 , 19 S.W.2d 1 .’ ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is not sufficient to show discrimination. It must appear that the alleged discriminatory provisions operate to the hurt of the defendant or adversely affect his rights or put him to a disadvantage. (Citations omitted.) When the class which includes the party complaining is in no manner prejudiced, it is immaterial whether a law discriminates against other classes or denies to other persons equal protection of the law. He who seeks to raise the question as to the validity of a discriminatory statute has no standing for that purpose unless he belongs to the class which is discriminated against. (Citations omitted.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“‘Courts never anticipate a question of constitutional law before the necessity of deciding it arises.’ They will not listen to an objection made to the constitutionality of an ordinance by a party whose rights it does not affect and who therefore has no interest in defeating it. (Citations omitted.)”
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.