Kline v. Vlandis’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bolling v. Sharpe · Reed v. Reed · Eisenstadt v. Baird · Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · Royster Guano Co v. Commonwealth of Virginia
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“those who do not belong in that class. Whether the statute is construed as creating an irrebutable [sic] presumption or as a rule of substantive law, that is what it does. In Heiner v. Donnan, 285 U.S. 312, 321, 52 S.Ct. 358, 359, 76 L.Ed. 772 (1932), the Court was confronted with a constitutional challenge to a federal statute which imposed a higher tax on transfers of property made by any donor within two years of his death because such transfers”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . entitled to a refund of the amounts of tuition and fees paid by her ... in excess of the amounts paid by resident students as tuition and fees . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“ever to controvert the presumption of nonresidence, the Texas Constitution imposes an invidious discrimination in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.