Circle School v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 district ·
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Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Troxel v. Granville · Meyer v. State of Nebraska
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) All supervising officers and teachers in charge of public, private or parochial schools shall cause the Flag of the United States of America to be displayed in every classroom during the hours of each school day and shall provide for the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance or the national anthem at the beginning of each school day. Students may decline to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and may refrain from saluting the flag on the basis of religious conviction or personal belief. The supervising officer of a school subject to the requirements of this subsection shall provide written notification to the parents or guardian of any student who declines to recite the Pledge of Allegiance or who refrains from saluting the flag. (2) This subsection shall not apply to any private or parochial school for which the display of the flag, the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance or the salute of the flag violates the religious conviction on which the school is based.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“requires them to affirm and have their students affirm the Commonwealth's view on patriotism ... impairing their ability to express certain values and philosophies which they wish to express .... [and] eliminat[ing] the ability of the students to make a choice, without coercion, whether to recite the Pledge or Anthem.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“unconstitutionally interferes with the School Plaintiffs' ability to express their values and forces them to espouse the Commonwealth's views.”
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.