Burlington Northern Railroad v. Ford

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that equal protection clause is violated if the under-inclusiveness and over-inclusiveness is so great that the rules can no longer be said rationally to implement the policy judgment
• recognizing that equal protection clause is violated if the under-inclusiveness and over-inclusiveness is so great that the rules can no longer be said rationally to implement the policy judgment
• holding classification based on religion is suspect classification
• referring to “race” and “religion” as “classif[ications] along suspect lines”
• describing race or religion as suspect classes
• describing “race or religion” as suspect classes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).