Tyler v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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.

1. “It is not enough under the equal protection clause for a claimant to assert that he has been deprived of a benefit granted to others.... The equal protection clause guarantees that similar individuals will be dealt with in a similar manner by the government. It does not reject the government’s ability to classify persons or “draw lines” in the creation and application of laws, but it does guarantee that those classifications will not be based upon impermissible criteria or arbitrarily used to burden a group of individuals. [[Image here]] [T]he equal protection guarantee has nothing to do with the determination of whether a specific individual is properly placed within a classification. Equal protection tests whether the classification is properly drawn. It is the guarantee of procedural due process that determines what process is necessary to find that an individual falls within or outside the scope of a specific classification. Equal protection deals with legislative line drawing and procedural due process with the adjudication of individual claims.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Longview of St. Joseph, Inc. v. City of St. Joseph · Ansevics v. Cashaw