Lenscrafters, Inc. v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
403 F.3d 798 · 2005
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Doe v. Michigan Department of State Police (2007), National Ass'n of Optometrists & Opticians v. Harris (2012)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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
Relies on Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. · Heller v. Doe Ex Rel. Doe · Romer Governor of Colorado v. Evans
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[L]icensed optometrists and optometric stores such as LensCrafters are not similarly situated because they provide different services to the market. Unlike retail optical stores, licensed optometrists are healthcare providers and, as such, have unique responsibilities and obligations to their patients that are not shared by optometric stores.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the statute regulates even-handedly to effectuate a legitimate local public interest, and its effects on interstate commerce are only incidental, it will be upheld unless the burden imposed on such commerce is clearly excessive in relation to the putative local benefits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“can discriminate against out-of-state interests in three different ways: (a) facially, (b) purposefully, or (c) in practical effect.”
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.