United States v. Lieb’s Empirical Analysis
462 F.2d 1161 · 1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1345
Relies on Dandridge v. Williams · Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. · Richardson v. Belcher · Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen v. Connally · Huber Investment Corporation v. Connally
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the area of economics and social welfare, a State does not violate the Equal Protection Clause merely because the classifications made by its laws are imperfect. If the classification has some ‘reasonable basis,’ it does not offend the Constitution simply because the classification ‘is not made with mathematical nicety or because in practice it results in some inequality.’ . . . ‘The problems of government are practical ones and may justify, if they do not require, rough accommodations — illogical, it may be, and unscientific.’ ... ‘A statutory discrimination will not be set aside if any state of facts reasonably may be conceived to justify it.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The President has made the broadest delegation of power to the Council, allowing it to use its own discretion as to the best means of achieving the purposes of the Executive Order, which are “to stabilize the economy, reduce inflation, and minimize unemployment [by stabilizing] prices, rents, wages, and salaries.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.