Briggs v. Kerrigan’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1751 (Child Nutrition Amendments of 1978) · 42 U.S.C. § 1753 · 42 U.S.C. § 1756 · 42 U.S.C. § 1757 · 42 U.S.C. § 1758 · 42 U.S.C. § 1759A · 42 U.S.C. § 1771 (Access to Baby Formula Act of 2022) · 42 U.S.C. § 1773
Relies on Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Shapiro v. Thompson · Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections Butts
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Judicial inquiry under the equal protection clause into areas of unequal treatment under law demands a standard of classification which is neither arbitrary nor creative of an invidious discrimination but reasonable when judged in light of the objectives of the legislation. See, e. g., Rinaldi v. Yeager, 1966, 384 U.S. 305 , 86 S.Ct. 1497 , 16 L.Ed.2d 577 ; McGowan v. Maryland, 1961, 366 U.S. 420 , 81 S.Ct. 1101 , 6 L.Ed.2d 393 ; Tigner v. Texas, 1940, 310 U.S. 141 , 60 S.Ct. 879 , 84 L.Ed. 1124 . See generally, Note, Developments in the Law Equal Protection, 1969, 82 Harv.L. R.1065. Legislative bodies [and regulatory agencies created and empowered by them], however, are given rather wide latitude in their judgments as to the reasonableness of classifications." Briggs v. Kerrigan, 307 F.Supp. 295, 302 (E.Mass.1969).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“as a measure of national security, to safeguard the health and well-being of the Nation's children and to encourage the domestic consumption of nutritious agricultural commodities and other food, by assisting the States, through grants-in-aid and other means, in providing ... nonprofit school-lunch programs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alcaraz v. Block“The purpose of creating a substantial agricultural market would be effectuated by the widest participation possible. The more children involved, the greater the potential market.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alcaraz v. Block
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.