State v. Erickson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2016 · most notably Carmona Et Al. v. Ward, Correctional Commissioner, Et Al. (1979), State v. Glass (1978)
7 federal appellate · 99 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Baker v. Carr · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]ased on the nature of the right, a greater or lesser burden is placed on the state to show that the classification has a fair and substantial relation to a legitimate governmental objective.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[u]nder the rational basis test, in order for a classification to survive judicial scrutiny, the classification `must be reasonable, not arbitrary, and must rest upon some difference having a fair and substantial relationship to the object of the legislation, so that all persons similarly circumstanced shall be treated alike.'" It is this more flexible and more demanding standard which will be applied in future cases if the compelling state interest test is found inappropriate.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“all persons are equal and entitled to equal rights, opportunities, and protection under the law.”
4 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.