238 Mo. App. 497 - Marr v. Galbraith’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 2012
11 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 Hayes v. Manning · Mott v. Morris · McRoberts v. Moudy
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An ecclesiastical matter is one that concerns doctrine, creed, or form of worship of the church, or the adoption and enforcement within a religious association of needful laws and regulations for the government of the membership, and the power of excluding from such associations those deemed unworthy of membership by the legally constituted authorities of the church; and all of such matters are within the province of the church tribunals and their decisions will be respected by the civil courts.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The question presented here is not one of creed, doctrine, descipline [sic] or church government, but, on the contrary, calls for the construction of a written instrument (a deed) which involved only the title of property. We need not and do not discuss the power and authority of the Methodist General Conference or its supreme judiciary body over its various individual churches, organizations and officers concerning any matter of faith, creed, church government, or any other ecclesiastical question.”
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.