Wilson v. Birnberg’s Empirical Analysis
667 F.3d 591 · 2012
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 46 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Goldberg v. Kelly
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The usual equal protection challenge is that a statute discriminates on its face ... against certain protected groups or trenches upon certain fundamental interests. Equal protection also protects against the unlawful administration by state officers of a state statute fair on its face, resulting in unequal application to those who are entitled to be treated alike. To be a class of one, the plaintiff must establish (1) he was intentionally treated differently from others similarly situated and (2) there was no rational basis for any such difference.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“claims are rooted in procedural due process, the Equal Protection Clause, and the First Amendment,” and those provisions therefore”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“compelling a candidate to list his residential address on his application[,] is an improper burden.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Poindexter v. Strach
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.