Gaines v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
August 1998
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. Little & Davenport Funeral Home, Inc. · Bickford v. Nolen
Most-quoted passages
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“If any reasonable state of facts can be conceived that would sustain the classification, existence of that state of facts at the time the law was enacted must be assumed, and one who assails such law must carry the burden of showing that it does not rest upon any reasonable basis, but is essentially arbitrary. [Cit.] [Gaines v. State, 260 Ga. 267, 268 ( 392 SE2d 524 ) (1990).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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