Luther Miller v. James Y. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
547 F.2d 1314 · 1977
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2007 · most notably Trafelet v. Thompson (1979), State v. Maldonado (1978)
11 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
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
Applies 7 U.S.C. § 2014
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Roe v. Wade · Stanley v. Illinois · Dandridge v. Williams · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
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.
“An applicant for a license who has committed one of the described felonies and a licensee who has done the same are similarly situated, and no justification exists for automatically disqualifying one and not the other.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“I fully recognize that, to say the least, this area of the law continues to evolve. On the one hand, decisions such as Bell, Stanley, Vlandis, LaFleur and Turner reflect a disdain for irrebuttable presumptions of ineligibility. On the other, the dissenting opinions in each of those cases and the Court’s decision in Salfi suggest the unworkability of a rule forbidding all conclusive classifications. And as evidenced by the Murgia decision, the area involving perhaps the clearest use of conclusive presumptions — mandatory retirement — continues to be tested solely on traditional equal protection grounds. Id. at 1329.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“particularly striking in light of Mr. Justice Rehnquist's dissent in Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur, 414 U.S. 632 , 659 (, 94 S.Ct. 791, 39 L.Ed.2d 52) (1974), adverting specifically to the effect of the irrebuttable presumption doctrine on mandatory retirement statutes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Trafelet v. Thompson
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.