Kahn v. Shevin’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
148 federal appellate · 56 district · 284 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 682 later decisions (55 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2015 · most notably Sosna v. Iowa (1975), Craig v. Boren (1976)
148 federal appellate · 56 district · 284 state decisions — followed in 36 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 · 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Shapiro v. Thompson · Bolling v. Sharpe · Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Reed v. Reed · Graham v. Richardson
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 682 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not whether the [classification] could have been drafted more wisely, but whether the lines chosen by the [drafter] are within constitutional limitations.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a] state tax law is not arbitrary although it 'discriminate[s] in favor of a certain class * * * if the discrimination is founded upon a reasonable distinction, or difference in state policy,' not in conflict with the Federal Constitution.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ground of difference having a fair and substantial relation to the object of the legislation,”
7 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.