Orr v. Orr’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
241 federal appellate · 56 district · 621 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,254 later decisions (88 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Cannon v. University of Chicago (1979), Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. Feeney (1979)
241 federal appellate · 56 district · 621 state decisions — followed in 39 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Warth v. Seldin · Baker v. Carr · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co.
Cited together with Craig v. Boren · Reed v. Reed · Frontiero v. Richardson · Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld · Califano v. Goldfarb
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 1,254 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where, as here, the State's compensatory and ameliorative purposes are as well served by a gender-neutral classification as one that gender classifies and therefore carries with it the baggage of sexual stereotypes, the State cannot be permitted to classify on the basis of sex.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“classifications by gender must serve important governmental objectives and must be substantially related to achievement of those objectives.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage““[T]he ‘old notio[n]’ that ‘generally it is the man’s primary responsibility to provide a home and its essentials,’ can no longer justify a statute that discriminates on the basis of gender. ‘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 ....’” 440 U.S. at 279 -80 (quoting Stanton v. Stanton, 421 U.S. 7, 10, 14-15 , 43 L. Ed. 2d 688 , 95 S. Ct. 1373 [1975]).”
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.