Lelande v. Lowery’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2001 · most notably 57 Cal. 2d 463 - Burks v. Poppy Construction Co. (1962), 51 Cal. 2d 177 - In Re Petersen (1958)
84 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 Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · William Truax v. Mike Raich · Joseph Lochner v. People of the State of New York · Perkins v. Lukens Steel Co. · Adkins v. Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia Same
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“have a substantial relation to a legitimate object to be accomplished ... [I]t is not our concern whether the Legislature has adopted what we might think to be the wisest and most suitable means of accomplishing its objects. [Citations.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Wide discretion is vested in the Legislature in making the classification and every presumption is in favor of the validity of the statute; the decision of the Legislature as to what is a sufficient distinction to warrant the classification will not be overthrown by the courts unless it is palpably arbitrary and beyond rational doubt erroneous. [Citations.] A distinction in legislation is not arbitrary if any set of facts reasonably can be conceived that would sustain it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“natural, intrinsic, or constitutional distinction which reasonably justifies difference in treatment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rogers v. Cranston
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.