State v. McGee’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2004 · most notably McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher (1961), 166 N.C. App. 333 - Coastal Plains Utilities, Inc. v. New Hanover County (2004)
40 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 Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · Magoun v. Illinois Trust & Savings Bank · Camfield v. United States · Atchison Co v. Matthews · Bacon v. Walker
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Legislative bodies may distinguish, select, and classify objects of legislation. It suffices if the classification is practical. They may prescribe different regulations for different classes, and discrimination as between classes is not such as to invalidate the legislative enactment. The very idea of classification is inequality, so that inequality in no manner determines the matter of constitutionality. The one requirement is that the ordinance must affect all persons similarly situated or engaged in the same business without discrimination.’ ” State v. McGee, supra at 639, 75 S.E. 2d at 787 . (Citations omitted.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The one requirement is that the ordinance must affect all persons similarly situated or engaged in the same business without discrimination.”
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.