Murphy v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis

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19 state decisions

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1. “"In Kahn v. Shevin , 416 U.S. 351 , 94 S.Ct. 1734 , 40 L.Ed.2d 189 (1974), the United States Supreme Court approved the constitutionality of a Florida statute which grants widows an annual property tax exemption of $500 but offers no analogous benefit for widowers. . . . [W]e believe the ratio decidendi of Kahn is dispositive of the issues presented here. See also Dill v. Dill , 231 Ga. 231 , 206 S.E.2d 6 ; and, Husband M. v. Wife M. , 321 A.2d 115 , decided by the Supreme Court of Delaware, April 18, 1974. "The United States Supreme Court determined the Florida statute involved in the Kahn case, providing different treatment of widows and widowers `"rest[s] upon some ground of difference having a fair and substantial relation to the object of the legislation." Reed v. Reed , 404 U.S. 71 , 76 , 92 S.Ct. 251 , 254 , 30 L.Ed.2d 225 , quoting Royster Guano Co. v. Virginia , 253 U.S. 412 , 415 , 40 S.Ct. 560 , 561 , 64 L.Ed. 989 ' Id., p. 1737, of 94 S.Ct. The court there went on to say: `This is not a case like Frontiero v. Richardson , 411 U.S. 677 , 93 S.Ct. 1764 , 36 L.Ed.2d 583 , where the Government denied its female employees both substantive and procedural benefits granted males "solely for administrative convenience" . . . We deal here with a state tax law reasonably designed to further the state policy of cushioning the financial impact of spousal loss upon the sex for whom that loss imposes a disproportionally heavy burden.' "The court also observed in its opinion that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 351 So. 2d 904 - Orr v. Orr

2. “In Kahn v. Shevin , 416 U.S. 351 , 94 S.Ct. 1734 , 40 L.Ed.2d 189 (1974), the United States Supreme Court approved the constitutionality of a Florida statute which grants widows an annual property tax exemption of $500 but offers no analogous benefit for widowers. . . . [W]e believe the ratio decidendi of Kahn is dispositive of the issues presented here. See also Dill v. Dill , 231 Ga. 231 , 206 S.E.2d 6 ; and, Husband M. v. Wife M. , 321 A.2d 115 , decided by the Supreme Court of Delaware, April 18, 1974.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 351 So. 2d 904 - Orr v. Orr

3. “We have returned to the original constitutional proposition that courts do not substitute their social and economic beliefs for the *Page 906 judgment of legislative bodies, who are elected to pass laws.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 351 So. 2d 904 - Orr v. Orr