Rundlett v. Oliver’s Empirical Analysis
607 F.2d 495 · 1979
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1998 · most notably United States Railroad Retirement Board v. Fritz (1980), Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma County (1981)
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 United States v. O'Brien · Brown v. Ohio · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Craig v. Boren · Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. Feeney
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is well-established law that ‘state courts are the ultimate expositors of state law’ and the federal courts are bound by the constructions placed upon state statutes by state courts absent extreme circumstances. Mullaney v. Wilbur, 421 U.S. 684, 691 , 95 S.Ct. 1881, 1886 , 44 L.Ed.2d 508 (1975); Pagan Torres v. Negron Ramos, 578 F.2d 11, 14 (1st Cir.), cert. denied, 439 U.S. 1005 , 99 S.Ct. 619 , 58 L.Ed.2d 682 (1978). ‘Construction’ in this sense refers to the structure of a statute, what its words mean, and how it operates. See, e.g. Wilbur v. Mullaney, 496 F.2d 1303, 1305 (1st Cir. 1974), aff’d, 421 U.S. 684 , 95 S.Ct. 1881 , 44 L.Ed.2d 508 (1975); Brown v. Ohio, 432 U.S. 161, 167 , 97 S.Ct. 2221 , 53 L.Ed.2d 187 (1977); Gurley v. Rhoden, 421 U.S. 200, 208 , 95 S.Ct. 1605 , 44 L.Ed.2d 110 (1975).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We examine the pregnancy prevention rationale with special wariness. Certainly the fact that women and not men bear children is a fundamental distinguishing characteristic of the two sexes and as such it can be the basis for some gender based legislation; but there is a danger that the very uniqueness of this characteristic makes it an available hindsight catchall rationalization for laws that were promulgated with totally different purposes in mind.”
1 later decision 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.