Skinner v. Oklahoma ex rel. Williamson, 316 U.S. 535 (1942) involved Oklahomas statutory scheme to sterilize inmates classified as habitual criminals. 316 U.S. at 536-37. In finding the scheme unconstitutional, the Court focused its analysis on how the law laid an unequal hand on those who had committed intrinsically the same quality of offense and sterilized one and not the other. Id. at 541. The Court gave the example that the sterilization law did not apply to embezzlers but did apply to those who committed grand larceny. Id. at 541-42.