Donaldson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Turner v. Safley · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Boddie v. Connecticut · Federal Communications Commission v. Beach Communications, Inc.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'If the classes are not similarly situated, ** then ... it is not necessary for us to analyze the challenge further.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.