Wark v. Robbins’s Empirical Analysis
458 F.2d 1295 · 1972
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 751
Relies on McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Reed v. Reed · Royster Guano Co v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Hoyt v. State of Florida
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he Court has moved away from its readiness to conceive any reasonable basis for differentiating the sexes, as demonstrated in Hoyt v. Florida, 368 U.S. 57 , 82 S.Ct. 159 , 7 L.Ed. 2d 118 (1961). . . . These observations . . . would argue for a requirement that the state must do more than allow a court to speculate and must in fact demonstrate a substantial relation to a legitimate state objective.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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