Janish v. Murtha’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2002
9 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 Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia · Wichelman v. Messner · City of Aberdeen v. Meidinger · Halverson v. Glass · Belau v. Buss
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [W]hether the statute does set up arbitrary classifications among various persons subject to it. (2) [W]hether there is a rational relationship between the classification and some legitimate legislative purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Stallions over the age of eighteen months, Bulls over the age of ten months, [or] Rams or Boars over the age of eight months[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zoss v. Schaefers
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.