Class legislation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 234 U.S. 224 - Keokee Consolidated Coke Co. v. Taylor · 1914Most cited · 239 citing opinions
presumption of legislative judgment
It is established by repeated decisions that a statute aimed at what is deemed an evil, and hitting it presumably where experience shows it to be most felt, is not to be upset by thinking up and enumerating other instances to which it might have been applied equally well, so far as the court can see. That is for the legislature to judge unless the case is very clear.
How often courts cite the case defining “Class legislation”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Class legislation” — 239 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.