Walters v. City of St. Louis’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
135 federal appellate · 29 district · 241 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 528 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016 · most notably Shapiro v. Thompson (1969), Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections Butts (1966)
135 federal appellate · 29 district · 241 state decisions — followed in 26 states
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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 117 · 26 U.S.C. § 1400 · 26 U.S.C. § 22
Relies on Skinner v. State of Oklahoma Williamson · Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Grosjean · Quaker City Cab Co. v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · New York Rapid Transit Corporation v. City of New York Brooklyn & Queens Transit Corporation
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 528 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Equal protection does not require identity of treatment. It only requires that classification rest on real and not feigned differences, that the distinction have some relevance to the purpose for which the classification is made, and that the different treatments be not so disparate, relative to the difference in classification, as to be wholly arbitrary.”
27 later decisions 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.