Atkins v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Harris v. Matthews (2007), Reid v. Gholson (1985)
39 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 Everson v. Board of Education · Presbyterian Church in US v. Mary Elizabeth Blue Hull Memorial Presbyterian Church · Gonzalez v. Roman Catholic Archbishop · Reid v. Johnston · Western Conference of Original Free Will Baptists of North Carolina v. Creech
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ivil courts do not inhibit free exercise of religion merely by opening their doors to disputes involving church property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“pursuant to 'neutral principles of law[.]'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Neither the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States nor the comparable provision in Article I, Section 13, of the Constitution of North Carolina deprives those entitled to the use and control of church property of protections afforded by government to all property owners alike . . . [including] access to the courts for the determination of contract and property rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. Matthews
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.