rational
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 505 U.S. 1 - Nordlinger v. Hahn · 1992Most cited · 2,151 citing opinions
for protecting this small subgroup than a blanket tax exemption for all taxpayers named Smith would be a rational means to protect a particular taxpayer named Smith who demonstrated difficulty paying her tax bill.
How often courts cite the case defining “rational”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “rational” — 2,146 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.