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73 F.3d 604 · 1996
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably McMillian v. Monroe County (1997), Coleman v. Houston Independent School District (1997)
5 federal appellate · 2 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Peretz v. United States · Familias Unidas v. Briscoe
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the challenged government action does not appear to classify or distinguish between two or more relevant persons or groups, then the action----even if irrational----does not deny them equal protection of the laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Rodriguez“A violation of the equal protection clause occurs only when, inter alia, the governmental action in question classifies between two or more relevant persons or groups.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Rodriguez“directs states to treat 'all persons similarly situated' alike.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.