Stanton v. Stanton’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
174 federal appellate · 45 district · 275 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 722 later decisions (81 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center (1985), Craig v. Boren (1976)
174 federal appellate · 45 district · 275 state decisions — followed in 31 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
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Flast v. Cohen · Taylor v. Louisiana · Reed v. Reed · Skinner v. State of Oklahoma Williamson
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 722 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family, and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Orr v. Orr · Peters v. Narick“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.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“". . . No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family, and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas. See Taylor v. Louisiana, 419 U.S. 522, 535, n.17 , 95 S.Ct. 692, 700 , 42 L.Ed.2d 690 (1975). [4] Women's activities and responsibilities are increasing and expanding. Coeducation is a fact, not a rarity. The presence of women in business, in the professions, in government and, indeed, in all walks of life where education is a desirable, if not always a necessary antecedent, is apparent and a proper subject of judicial notice. If a specified age of minority is required for the boy in order to assure him parental support while he attains his education and training, so, too, it is for the girl. To distinguish between the two on educational grounds is to be self-serving . . ." (95 S.Ct. at 1378)”
6 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.