Williams v. McNair’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he Constitution does not require that a classification keep abreast of the latest in educational opinion, especially when there remains a respectable opinion to the contrary . . . . Any other rule would mean that courts and not legislatures would determine all matters of public policy.”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Schattman v. Texas Employment Commission · United States v. Com. of Va.

2. ““A good case can be made for the proposition that it is not necessary to resort to a constitutional amendment to abolish state laws which make unfair discriminations between men and women in employment or any other sphere of life. This argument rests upon the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment which prohibits states from treating differently persons similarly situated, and is now being interpreted by the courts to invalidate state laws which single out women for different treatment not based on some reasonable classification. “To be sure, the Equal Protection Clause may not satisfy the extreme demands of a few advocates of the Equal Rights Amendment who would convert men and women into beings not only equal but alike, and grant them identical rights and impose upon them identical duties in all the relationships and undertakings of fife. “It cannot be gainsaid, however, that the Equal Protection Clause, properly interpreted, nullifies every state law lacking a rational basis which seeks to make rights and responsibilities turn upon sex. “My view is shared by legal scholars. Their views on this subject are succinctly expressed by Bernard Schwartz in his recent commentary on the Constitution of the United States which declares ‘that a law based upon sexual classification will normally be deemed inherently unreasonable unless it is intended for the protection of the female sex.’ “The best example of the Supreme Court’s willingness to use the 14th Amendment to str”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Corso v. Corso

3. “'Such a plan (i.e., giving the student a choice of a "single-sex”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan