State v. Vadnais’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2013
20 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 Mapp v. Ohio · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Cannon v. United States · Mangold Midwest Co. v. Village of Richfield · People v. Utica Daw's Drug 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We accept as settled law that under the equal protection clause of U.S. Const. Amend. XIV persons accused of violating a municipal regulatory ordinance imposing penal sanctions are protected from an intentional discrimination in the enforcement of the ordinance. Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U.S. 356 , 6 S.Ct. 1064 , 30 L. Ed. 220 (1886). * * * [A]n intentional or deliberate decision by public officials, acting as agents of the state, not to enforce penal regulations against a class of violators expressly included within the terms of such penal regulation does, in our view, under the principle of Yick Wo , constitute a denial of the constitutional guarantee of equal protection of the laws. See, Annotation, 4 A.L.R. 3d 404 .””
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.