Peck’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2015
1 district ·
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
Relies on Lemon v. Kurtzman · Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n · Cornelius v. NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. · Agostini v. Felton Chancellor Board of Education of the City of New York · School District of Abington Township Pennsylvania v. Schempp J Murray III
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Bibles are not distributed in the formal classroom setting, are not part of classroom activities, and are not part of the schools' curriculum.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[T]he Board’s decision that religious speech is one of many kinds of speech that is consistent with the school’s educational mission and that is appropriate for students to hear if they so choose does not evince the favoritism of religion that the Establishment Clause condemns. Rather, to require the Board to exclude religious literature as such from the forum it has created to further the schools’ educational mission by exposing the county’s students to a variety of age appropriate private speech would evince the hostility toward religious speech that the Establishment Clause does not require and the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses forbid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“we believe that students are particularly capable of recognizing [the distinction between a school's equal access policy and school sponsorship of religion] where, as here, a reasonable observer would know ... [that] the tables displaying the Bibles are set up for only one day and are located outside of the classrooms in areas that the students can freely leave; no pressure is exerted on students to take Bibles; [and] the tables bear an explicit disclaimer renouncing any school endorsement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.