Baer v. Kolmorgen’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Everson v. Board of Education · Zorach v. Clauson · People of State of Illinois McCollum v. Board of Education of School Dist No 71 Champaign County Ill · Doremus v. Board of Ed. of Hawthorne
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.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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