Doe ex rel. Doe v. Santa Fe Independent School District’s Empirical Analysis
168 F.3d 806 · 1999
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe (2000), Morgan v. Swanson (2011)
26 federal appellate · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · United States v. Salerno · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Lemon v. Kurtzman · Ward v. Rock Against Racism
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The board has chosen to permit the graduating senior class, with the advice and counsel of the senior class principal or designee, to elect by secret ballot to choose whether an invocation and benediction shall be part of the graduation exercise. If so chosen the class shall elect by secret ballot, from a list of student volunteers, students to deliver nonsectarian, nonproselytizing invocations and benedictions for the purpose of solemnizing their graduation ceremonies.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A designated public forum may, of course, be limited to a specified class of speakers or to discussion of specified subjects -- thus the term limited public forum. Nevertheless, the State does not create a designated public forum by inaction or by permitting limited discourse.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“conveys a message that religion is 'favored,' 'preferred,' or 'promoted' over other beliefs.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.