Commonwealth v. Meyers’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
August 2010
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections Butts · Nordlinger v. Hahn · Welsh II v. United States · Califano v. Westcott
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The equal protection analysis is not solely concerned with the resulting effect of a statutory provision. The relevant inquiry under the equal protection analysis is whether the classification (that is, the difference in treatment) is rationally related to a legitimate governmental interest.”
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.