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City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc.

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Limited by some courts
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
473 U.S. 432
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
247 of 247
Citing cases (total)
7,083
Treatment dates
2004
Limited by some courts
At least one reviewed court has limited this case’s holding to narrower facts or a narrower rule. No reviewed court has overruled it. City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc. remains controlling, but the Tenth Circuit declined to extend its approach to equal protection review of economic regulation. That limited treatment is listed below.
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All 247 flagged citations have been read; the other reviewed opinions applied Cleburne or addressed other decisions, arguments, and separate opinions.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

7,083 later cases cite City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc.; 247 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

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  • The Tenth Circuit declined to extend Cleburne's more searching rational basis review to economic regulation.

    Powers v. Harris · Tenth Circuit · filed

    Regardless, the Court itself has never applied Cleburne-style rational-basis review to economic issues. See, e.g., Fitzgerald, 123 S.Ct. at 2159-60; Beach Communications, 508 U.S. at 315, 113 S.Ct. 2096; Nordlinger, 505 U.S. at 11-13, 112 S.Ct. 2326. Following the Court’s lead, neither will we.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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