Munoz v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
930 F.2d 1400 · 1991
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2018
7 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1382 (§ 1611 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1382C (§ 1614 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Weinberger v. Salfi · Bolling v. Sharpe · Flemming v. Nestor
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.
“'[t]he rational basis test is identical under the two rubrics [of equal protection and due process].'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“rationally related to a legitimate governmental purpose.”
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.