racial classifications
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 393 U.S. 385 - Hunter v. Erickson · 1969Most cited · 700 citing opinions
racial classifications are 'constitutionally suspect,' and subject to the 'most rigid scrutiny,' They 'bear a far heavier burden of justification' than other classifications
How often courts cite the case defining “racial classifications”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “racial classifications” — 697 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.