Padula v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis
822 F.2d 97 · 1987
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 16 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2020 · most notably Romer Governor of Colorado v. Evans (1996), Franklin v. Massachusetts (1992)
55 federal appellate · 16 district · 15 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 28 U.S.C. § 291 · 28 U.S.C. § 536 · 5 U.S.C. § 2302 · 5 U.S.C. § 701
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Bolling v. Sharpe · Heckler v. Chaney
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ijf the Court [in Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 , 106 S.Ct. 2841 , 92 L.Ed.2d 140 (1986) ] was unwilling to object to state laws that criminalized the behavior that defines the class, it is hardly open to a lower court to conclude that state-sponsored discrimination against the class is invidious [because] there can hardly be a more palpable discrimination against a class than making the conduct that defines the class criminal.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“|j]udicially manageable standards may be found in formal or informal policy statements and regulations as well as in statutes.” Padula v. Webster, 822 F.2d 97, 100 (D.C.Cir.1987). 2 . Indeed, in FAIR the Supreme Court indicated that”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It would be quite anomalous, on its face, to declare status defined by conduct that states may constitutionally criminalize as deserving of strict scrutiny under the equal protection clause”
4 later decisions 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.