Malan v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 district · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Heitman v. State (1991), State v. Ramirez (1991)
3 district · 86 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 Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California · Eisenstadt v. Baird · Graham v. Richardson · Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections Butts
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All laws of a general nature shall have uniform operation.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“persons similarly situated should be treated similarly, and persons in different circumstances should not be treated as if their circumstances were the same.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ross v. Schackel · State v. Herrera“First, a law must apply equally to all persons within a class. Second, the statutory classifications and the different treatment given the classes must be based on differences that have a reasonable tendency to further the objectives of the statute.”
5 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.