429 U.S. 190 (1976) Cited 1,590 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding that sex-based classifications are subject to intermediate scrutiny under the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause, including because Reed v. Reed , 404 U.S. 71, 92 S.Ct. 251, 30 L.Ed.2d 225, and other equal protection cases and social changes had overtaken any "inconsistent" suggestion in Goesaert v. Cleary , 335 U.S. 464, 69 S.Ct. 198, 93 L.Ed. 163