In re Doyle’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1983
6 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
Relies on Van Brunt v. Schenck · Dupree v. Smith
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.
“we can not, under the system of law which we are appointed to administer, look at that [and choose one religion over the other]. The state of which we are citizens and officers, does not regard herself as having any competency in spiritual matters . . . The law does not profess to know what is a right belief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Waites v. Waites
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.