reasonable classification
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 205 U.S. 34 - Nicholas Halter v. State of Nebraska · 1907Most cited · 231 citing opinions
equal protection
A state may, consistently with the 14th Amendment, make a classification among its people based 'upon some reasonable ground,—some difference which bears a just and proper relation to the attempted classification, and is not a mere arbitrary selection.
How often courts cite the case defining “reasonable classification”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “reasonable classification” — 231 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.