Zeigler v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
638 F.2d 776 · 1981
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably Esmail v. Macrane (1995), Zeigler v. Jackson (1983)
35 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Cannon v. United States · Dothard v. Rawlinson · Dothard v. Rawlinson Hazelwood School District · Stanton v. Stanton
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f distinctions between similarly situated individuals are to withstand an equal protection analysis, such distinctions must be reasonable, not arbitrary, and must rest on grounds having a fair and substantial relation to the object of the legislation. See Stanton v. Stanton, 421 U.S. 7 , 14, 95 S.Ct. 1373 , 1377-78, 43 L.Ed.2d 688 (1975); cf. International Association of Firefighters, etc. v. City of Sylacauga, AL, 436 F.Supp. 482 , 488 (N.D.Ala.1977).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he essence of the equal protection requirement is that the state treat all those similarly situated similarly.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[S]tate action, of a kind that falls within the prescription of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, may be brought about through the state's administrative and regulatory agencies just as through the legislature.”
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.