Hernandez v. Robles’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
84
cited by 84 later decisions
12
cited 12 times by the Supreme Court
8
states following
March 2016
most recently cited
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 22 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 1 U.S.C. § 7 · 28 U.S.C. § 1738C
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Until a few decades ago, it was an accepted truth for almost everyone who ever lived, in any society in which marriage existed, that there could be marriages only between participants of different sex”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“'substantially related' " to the achievement of "important governmental objective[s],”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The Legislature could ... find that [heterosexual] relationships are all too often casual or temporary. It could find that an important function of marriage is to create more stability and permanence in the relationships that cause children to be born. It thus could choose to offer an inducement — in the form of marriage and its attendant benefits — to opposite-sex couples who make a solemn, long-term commitment to each other. The Legislature could find that this rationale for marriage does not apply with comparable force to same-sex couples. These couples can become parents by adoption, or by artificial insemination or other technological marvels, but they do not become parents as a result of accident or impulse. The Legislature could find that unstable relationships between people of the opposite sex present a greater danger that children will be born into or grow up in unstable homes than is the case with same-sex couples, and thus that promoting stability in opposite-sex relationships will help children more.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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