Collins v. Day’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 165 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 170 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Richardson v. State (1999), Martin v. Richey (1999)
1 federal appellate · 165 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 Rice v. Norman Williams Co. · Bassett Furniture Industries, Inc. v. Bravman · Komen v. Robbins · Neshewat v. Hagstrom · Pell v. Procunier
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 170 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the disparate treatment accorded by the legislation must be reasonably related to inherent characteristics which distinguish the unequally treated classes. Second, the preferential treatment must be uniformly applicable and equally available to all persons similarly situated.”
62 later decisions quote this exact passage“The General Assembly shall not grant to any citizen, or class of citizens, privileges or immunities, which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens.”
38 later decisions quote this exact passage“negative every conceivable basis which might have supported the classification.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.