People v. Santorelli’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Spencer Tunick v. Howard Safir City of New York (2000), State v. Castaneda (2010)
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 12 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.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One of the most important purposes to be served by the Equal Protection Clause is to ensure that 'public sensibilities' grounded in prejudice and unexamined stereotypes do not become enshrined as part of the official policy of government.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Thus, where 'public sensibilities' constitute the justification for a gender-based classification, the fundamental question is whether the particular 'sensibility' to be protected is, in fact, a reflection of archaic prejudice or a manifestation of a legitimate government objective.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[T]he People have offered nothing to justify a law that discriminates against women by prohibiting them from removing their tops and exposing their bare chests in public as men are routinely permitted to do.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.