Ferrin Cole’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
9 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably 216 F. Supp. 2d 1084 - Artichoke Joe's v. Norton (2002), Griffith v. Butte School District No. 1 (2010)
9 district · 3 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 Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Friends of the Earth Incorporateds v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Singleton v. Wulff
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no doubt that compliance with the Establishment Clause is a state interest sufficiently compelling to justify content-based restrictions on speech.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Niemeyer’s proposed speech was a religious sermon which advised the audience that “we are all God’s children, through Jesus Christ [sic] death when we accept his free love and saving grace in our lives,” and requested that the audience accept that “God created us” and that man’s plans “will not fully succeed unless we pattern our lives after Jesus’ example.” Finally, Niemeyer’s speech called upon the audience to “accept God’s love and grace” and “yield to God our lives.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The `capable of repetition, yet evading review' exception to mootness applies when (1) the challenged action is too short in duration to be fully litigated before cessation or expiration, and (2) there is a reasonable expectation that the same complaining party will be subjected to the same action again.”
1 later decision 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.