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How courts have described this case

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

• stating that courts should “not decide constitutional questions unnecessarily”
• economic regulation under Equal Protection Clause must pass so-called rational-basis test, which only requires showing that classification has legitimate governmental purpose
• to determine legislative intent, Court first looks to the language of the statute itself
• “[W]e will not set aside the Commissioner [of Taxesj’s findings of fact unless clearly erroneous.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).