Gronne v. Abrams’s Empirical Analysis
793 F.2d 74 · 1986
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2017
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Dandridge v. Williams · City of New Orleans v. Dukes · Ferguson v. Skrupa · Munn v. Illinois
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[i]n the area of economic or social welfare, legislation not involving suspect classifications or touching on fundamental interests is presumed constitutional, and the courts require only that the distinctions drawn by the challenged statute be rationally related to a legitimate state interest or purpose ” (Gronne v. Abrams, 793 F.2d 74, 77 [2d Cir.1986] [emphasis added]).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`reflects the judiciary's awareness that "it is up to legislatures, not courts, to decide on the wisdom and utility of legislation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“we are required to defer to the legislative choice, absent a showing that the legislature acted arbitrarily or irrationally.”
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.