Johnson v. Sunray Services, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
15 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 6901 (Federal Facility Compliance Act of 1992)
Relies on City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Connally v. General Construction Co. · City of New Orleans v. Dukes · West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish · Ferguson v. Green
Most-quoted passages
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“Before it is said that such hypothesizing is far afield, we re-emphasize that our role is not to discover the actual basis for the legislation. Our task is merely to consider if any rational basis exists which demonstrates the possibility of a deliberate nexus with state objectives so that the legislation is not the product of utterly arbitrary and capricious government and void of any hint of deliberate and lawful purpose. Since we can reasonably conceive of lawful purposes for the state's classification scheme, it may not be held to have been arbitrarily enacted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weiss v. Geisbauer
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.