Reilly v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently November 1994 · most notably Johnson v. St. Vincent Hospital, Inc. (1980), Collins v. Day (1994)
2 district · 33 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Craig v. Boren · Reed v. Reed · Royster Guano Co v. Commonwealth of Virginia · McDonald v. Board of Election Comm'rs of Chicago · Lehnhausen v. Lake Shore Auto Parts Co.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It has been held many times that all reasonable presumptions are indulged on appeal in favor of the rulings and Judgments of the trial court ... a court of appeals will not presume anything in favor of appellant to sustain his alleged errors."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““We are not convinced that the existence of such options render the uneven distribution of benefits under ‘A’ options constitutionally permissible. From the record we know that ‘A’ options are selected by the vast majority of all annuitants and that ‘B’ options are not the functional equivalent of ‘A’ options.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Our interpretation of a state constitutional provision is an independent judicial act of this Court, and in making that judgment, federal cases have only persuasive force.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Collins v. Day
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.