Stewart v. Jarriel’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2002
19 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 Mack v. Kime · Tucker v. Paulk · Grant-Jeter Co. v. American Real Estate Co. · Bond v. Stephens · Knowles v. White
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All questions relating to the faith and practice of the church and of its members belongs to the church judicatories to which the members have voluntarily subjected themselves, since when a person becomes a member of a church, he does so upon the condition of submission to its ecclesiastical jurisdiction and however much he may be dissatisfied with the exercise of that jurisdiction, he has no right to invoke the supervisory power of a civil court so long as none of his civil rights are involved. So long as a professed creed is not subversive of the peace and good order of society, it is not within the province of any department of the government to settle differences in creeds or determine what ought or ought not to be a fundamental of religious belief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is conclusive upon the civil courts, whether, in the opinion of the judges of such courts, the decision appears to be right or wrong.... [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Dowd
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.