Parker v. Harper’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 1993 · most notably Clay v. Crawford (1944), Holiman v. Dovers (1963)
47 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 Mitchell v. Church of Christ · Thomas v. Lewis · Wallace v. Hughes · Franke v. Mann · Martin v. Kentucky Christian Conference, Inc.
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.
““Where a donor has dedicated property to advance or disseminate a particular religious doctrine or faith, and conflicting claims arise as to its ownership or possession, the civil courts will determine which of the rival claimants are holding to the faith the donor desired to favor, and award the property to them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hall v. Deskins
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.