Scott v. Hammock’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 2021
2 district · 4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Lemon v. Kurtzman · Sherbert v. Verner · Employment Division Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. L Smith · United States v. Locke · Wallace v. Jaffree
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A clergyman or priest cannot, without the consent of the person making the confession, be examined as to any confession made to him in his professional character in the course of discipline enjoined by the church to which he belongs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scott v. Hammock
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.