Reynolds v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Miller v. Miller (1998), Tate v. Browning-Ferris, Inc. (1992)
6 federal appellate · 103 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 Michigan v. Long · Catz v. Rubenstein · Kenyon v. Hammer · 368 So. 2d 516 - Garrett v. Raytheon Co., Inc. · Jerome Pillow v. Truman Roberts
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“''The legislature shall not, except as otherwise provided in this Constitution, pass any local or special law authorizing: &oge ok Regulating the practice or jurisdiction of ... in judicial proceedings or inquiry before the courts ... or other tribunals.. ..."”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage“Laws of a general nature shall have a uniform operation throughout the State, and where a general law can be made applicable, no special law shall be enacted.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage“targets for different treatment less than an entire class of similarly situated persons or things.”
9 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.