Idaho Department of Employment v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 109 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 161 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Pennsylvania v. Mimms (1977), Minnesota v. Clover Leaf Creamery Co. (1981)
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 109 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1257
Relies on Dandridge v. Williams · M/s Bremen v. Zapata off-Shore Company · Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia · Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · Jefferson v. Hackney
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he [night/day school] classification serves as a predictable and convenient means for distinguishing between those who are likely to be students primarily and part-time workers only secondarily and thus ineligible for unemployment compensation and those who are primarily full-time workers and students only secondarily without the necessity of making costly individual eligibility determinations which would deplete available resources. The fact that the classification is imperfect and that the availability of some students desiring full-time employment may not be substantially impaired by their attendance at daytime classes does not. . . render the statute invalid under the United States Constitution.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Mr. Justice STEVENS, dissenting in part. In defining the jurisdiction of this Court to review the final judgments rendered by the highest court of a State, Congress has sharply differentiated between cases in which the state court has rejected a federal claim and those in which the federal claim has been vindicated. In the former category our jurisdiction is mandatory; in the latter, it is discretionary. Our jurisdiction in this case is in the discretionary category. The Idaho Supreme Court has ordered the Idaho Department of Employment to pay benefits to an Idaho resident, resting its decision on an interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Since this decision does not create a conflict and does not involve a question of national importance, it is inappropriate to grant certiorari and order full briefing and oral argument. Even though there was error in the Idaho Supreme Court’s use of the Fourteenth Amendment as a basis for providing an Idaho resident with more protection than the Federal Constitution requires, I do not believe that error is a sufficient justification for the exercise of this Court's discretionary jurisdiction. We are much too busy to correct every error that is called to our attention in the thou sands of certiorari petitions that are filed each year. Whenever we attempt to do so summarily, we court the danger of either committing error ourselves or of confusing rather than clarifying the law. This risk is aggravated when the losing litigant is too poor ”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The nature of the burden upon one attacking a statute on equal protection grounds depends upon whether the classification is one subject to close judicial scrutiny or traditional equal protection analysis. Since the classification here is not based upon sex, race, alienage or national origin and does not involve fundamental rights, it is subject to the traditional equal protection standard. [Authority.] Under that test the classification must be sustained unless it is patently arbitrary and bears no rational relationship to a legitimate governmental interest. Id. It does not deny equal protection simply because in practice it results in some inequality; practical problems of government permit rough accommodations; and the classification will be upheld if any state of facts reasonably can be conceived to justify it. [Authority.] The legislature has wide discretion in deciding classifications. [Authority.] Our view of the wisdom of the legislation is irrelevant. [Authority.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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