Beal v. Beal’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1993
15 state decisions
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 15 U.S.C. § 1691 (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 20 U.S.C. § 1866 · 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000C
Relies on Shapiro v. Thompson · Craig v. Boren · Reed v. Reed · Frontiero v. Richardson · Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a statute is defective because of underinclusion there exist two remedial alternatives: a court may either declare it a nullity and order that its benefits not extend to the class that the legislature intended to benefit, or it may extend the coverage of the statute to include those who are aggrieved by exclusion.” (Citations omitted) 398 U.S. at 361 , 90 S.Ct. at 1808 , Harlan, J. concurring. See also: Califano v. Goldfarb 430 U.S. 199 , 97 S.Ct. 1021 , 51 L.Ed.2d 270 (1977) Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld 420 U.S. 636 , 95 S.Ct. 1225 , 43 L.Ed.2d 514 (1975) Levy v. Louisiana 391 U.S. 68 , 88 S.Ct. 1509 , 20 L.Ed.2d 436 (1965) White v. Crook 251 F.Supp. 401 (MD, Ala.-1966) Beal v. Beal 388 A.2d 72 (Me., 1978)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]s between abolishing alimony and making it available to husbands in appropriate cases, [the legislature] would choose the latter. We conclude that the dominant legislative purpose of the alimony statute, as it stood when this action was brought, is correctly served by treating is as extending eligibility to men as well as women. . . . 388 A.2d at 76 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Murphey v. Murphey · Orr v. Orr
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.