Herb Freiler’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2025
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 · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, 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 · Widmar v. Vincent
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the juxtaposition of the disavowal of endorsement of evolution with an urging that students contemplate alternative theories of the origin of life; (2) the reminder that students have the right to maintain beliefs taught by their parents regarding the origin of life; and (3) the “Biblical version of Creation” as the only alternative theory explicitly referenced in the disclaimer”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“, as the panel opinion mistakenly quoted] maintain beliefs taught by parents on [the] ... matter of the origin of life and matter”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“encourag[ing] students to read and meditate upon religion in general and the 'Biblical version of Creation' in particular”
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.