Estrin v. Moss’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably Kochins v. Linden-Alimak, Inc. (1986), Waikiki Resort Hotel, Inc. v. City & County of Honolulu (1981)
4 federal appellate · 64 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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · Anderson Nat Bank v. Luckett · 20 Cal. 2d 879 - Walker v. City of San Gabriel · Motlow v. State · 4 Smith & H. 222 - Peay v. Nolan
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) The equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment does not take from the state the power to classify in the adoption of police laws, but admits of the exercise of a wide scope of discretion in that regard, and avoids what is done only when it is without any reasonable basis, and therefore it is purely arbitrary. (2) A classification having some reasonable basis does not offend against that clause merely because it is not made with mathematical nicety, or because in practice it results in some inequality. (3) When the classifiea tion in such a law is called in question, if any state of facts reasonably can be conceived that would sustain it, the existence of that state of facts at the time the law was enacted must be assumed. (4) One who assails the classification in such a law must carry the burden of showing that it does not rest upon any reasonable basis, but is essentially arbitrary.” The same rules must apply in disposing of a question arising under Article 1, § 8 of our Constitution of 1870 ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is a familiar rule of statutory construction, where a statute of doubtful meaning and subject to construction, that administrative interpretations, especially where they are unchallenged over a long period of time, are accorded persuasive weight by the court and will usually he followed unless palpably erroneous.” (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“As in court proceedings the burden of proof, apart from statute, is on the party asserting the affirmative of an issue before an administrative tribunal.”). See generally Pan Am. Petroleum Corp. v. Wyo. Oil & Gas Conservation Comm’n, 446 P.2d 550, 556 (Wyo. 1968) (recognizing that”
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.