O'Connor v. . Hendrick’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 1967 · most notably Finot v. Pasadena City Board of Education (1967), People ex rel. Ring v. Board of Education of District 24 (1910)
26 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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
reviewedO'Connor v. Hendrick
Relationships
Relies on Rulison v. Post · Trustees of Schools v. People ex rel. Van Allen
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Here Ave have the plainest possible declaration of the public policy of the state, as opposed to ‘the prevalence of sectarian influences in the public schools. The regulation established by the state superintendent of public instruction, through the agency of his order in the Bates appeal, is in accord Avith the public policy thus evidenced by the fundamental lawr. There can be little doubt that the effect of the costume worn by these Sisters of St. Joseph at all times in the presence of their pupils would be to inspire respect, if not sympathy, for the religious denomination to Avhich they so manifestly belong. To this extent the influence was sectarian, even if it did not amount to the teaching of denominational doctrine.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.