Clark v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
236 F.2d 13 · 1956
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably Welsh v. United States (1968), Glover v. United States (1961)
27 federal appellate · 4 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 Dickinson v. United States · Gonzales v. United States · Burlington County Bridge Commission v. Driscoll · Simmons v. United States · De Moss v. United States
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court has previously decided this point adversely to appellant in George v. United States, 9 Cir. 1952, 196 F.2d 445 , at page 450, certiorari denied 344 U.S. 843 , 73 S.Ct. 58 , 97 L.Ed. 656 , where it was said: “ ‘In sum, as the exemption from participation in war on the ground of religious training and belief can be granted or withheld by the Congress, the Congress is free to determine the persons to whom it will grant it, and may deny it to persons whose opinions the Congress does not class as “religious” in the ordinary acceptance of the word. So assuming that the definition of “religious training and belief” in Section J¡56(j) is restrictive, such restriction is within the constitutional power of Congress.’ ” [Emphasis supplied]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"2. Describe the nature of your belief which is the basis of your claim made in Series I above, and state whether or not your belief in a Supreme Being involves duties which to you are superior to those arising from any human relation."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”
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.