Sklar v. Byrne’s Empirical Analysis
727 F.2d 633 · 1984
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Peoples Rights Organization, Inc. v. City of Columbus (1998), Gillespie v. City of Indianapolis (1999)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Shapiro v. Thompson · Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. · Plyler v. Doe
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I the leg isla tive classification neither impinges on a fundamenta personal right nor employs an inherently suspect classification courts will generally uphold the classification if it i rationally related to a legitimate state interest[.J”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the city's purpose in protecting the reliance interests of those who purchased and registered handguns in Chicago was a legitimate purpose.”); Peoples Rights Org., Inc. v. City of Columbus, 152 F.3d 522, 531 (6th Cir. 1998) (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Bednasek v. Kobach · Fish v. Kobach“[s]ince the state constitutional right is narrowly circumscribed by the police power, the fact that the Chicago ordinance as a whole affects the right does not trigger compelling state interest analysis of the ordinance”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.