Reed v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
629 federal appellate · 355 district · 1,511 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,649 later decisions (186 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center (1985), Stanley v. Illinois (1972)
629 federal appellate · 355 district · 1,511 state decisions — followed in 50 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 28 U.S.C. § 1257
Relies on Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · Royster Guano Co v. Commonwealth of Virginia · McDonald v. Board of Election Comm'rs of Chicago · Cruz v. Hauck
Cited together with Frontiero v. Richardson · Royster Guano Co v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Craig v. Boren · Dandridge v. Williams · Shapiro v. Thompson
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 3,649 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be reasonable, not arbitrary, and must rest upon some ground of difference having a fair and substantial relation to the object of the legislation, so that all persons similarly circumstanced shall be treated alike.”
210 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[P]roviding dissimilar treatment for men and women who are ... similarly situated... violates the Equal Protection Clause.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Statutory classifications that distinguish between males and females are 'subject to scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Orr v. Orr · Bassett v. Bassett
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.