Hunt v. Hunt’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Turner v. Roman Catholic Diocese (2009), State v. Holm (2006)
2 district · 25 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 42 U.S.C. § 667 (§ 467 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Wisconsin v. Yoder · Sherbert v. Verner · Thomas v. Collins · Jimmy Swaggart Ministries v. Board of Equalization of California · MATTER OF ROSE v. Moody
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only those interests of the highest order and those not otherwise served can overbalance legitimate claims to the free exercise of religion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.