Geiger v. Kitzhaber’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 1 U.S.C. § 7 · 26 U.S.C. § 105
Relies on City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Turner v. Safley · Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Heller v. Doe Ex Rel. Doe · Vance v. Bradley
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Moral disapproval of a group cannot be a legitimate governmental interest under the Equal Protection Clause because legal classifications must not be ‘drawn for the purpose of disadvantaging the group burdened by the law.'”
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.