Zapo v. Gilreath’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Hodel v. Indiana · Eastern Air Lines, Inc. v. Dept. of Revenue · Ferguson v. State · Florida High School Activities Ass'n v. Thomas ex rel. Thomas
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It would be proper to sustain an equal protection challenge to a statute only if `the Legislature could not have had any reasonable ground for believing that there were public considerations justifying the particular classification and distinction made.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]ll natural persons are equal before the law ...”
1 later decision 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.