Steelman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2018
21 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
Relies on Washington v. Davis · Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. Federal Maritime Commission · Robinson v. State · Lopez v. State · Collins v. State
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. [Whe have not held that a law, neutral on its face and serving ends otherwise within the power of government to pursue, is invalid under the Equal Protection Clause simply because it may affect a greater proportion of one race than of another. Disproportionate impact is not irrelevant, but it is not the sole touchstone of invidious racial discrimination forbidden by the Constitution. Standing alone, it does not trigger the rule ... that racial classifications are to be subjected to the strictest serutiny and are justifiable only by the weightiest of considerations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Platt v. State“simply sought to elicit the jurors' preconceived notions about drug dealers, and about dealing drugs within 1,000 feet of school property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Perryman v. State“Determining the appropriate sentence for a crime is a function properly exercised by the legislature.”). 7 . According to Conner ,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Moss-Dwyer
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.