Cardinal Sporting Goods Co. v. Eagleton’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 1985
1 district · 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Connally v. General Construction Co. · St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“primarily served the secular purpose, independent of encouragement, if any, of religious observances”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.