Anderson v. Winter’s Empirical Analysis
631 F.2d 1238 · 1980
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2011
10 federal appellate · 2 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. Diebold, Inc. · Dandridge v. Williams · Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)his argument is reasonable, but it is made in the wrong forum. It must be addressed to the (state) legislature.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In accordance with this comparatively relaxed standard of review for social and economic regulation, the decisions of the Supreme Court 'presume the constitutionality of the statutory discriminations and require only that the classification challenged be rationally related to a legitimate state interest.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the area of economics and social welfare, a State does not violate the Equal Protection Clause merely because the classifications made by its laws are imperfect.”
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.