Deen v. Egleston’s Empirical Analysis
597 F.3d 1223 · 2010
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Plyler v. Doe · Federal Communications Commission v. Beach Communications, Inc.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Ejqual protection is not a license for courts to judge the wisdom, fairness, or logic of legislative choices. In areas of social and economic policy, a statutory classification that neither proceeds along suspect lines nor infringes fundamental constitutional rights must be upheld against equal protection challenge if there is any reasonably conceivable state of facts that could provide a rational basis for the classification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“under rational basis review, a state has no obligation to produce evidence to sustain the rationality of a statutory classification. Rather, a statute is presumed constitutional, and the burden is on the one attacking the law to negate every conceivable basis that might support it, even if that basis has no foundation in the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Locke v. Shore
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.