Yick Wo v.
Hopkins (1886)
nThough
the law itself be fair on its face, and impartial in appearance,
yet, if it is applied and administered by public
authority with an evil eye and an unequal hand, so as
practically to make unjust and illegal discriminations between
persons in similar circumstances, material to their
rights, the denial of equal justice is still within the prohibition
of the constitution.
