Lemon v. Laws’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Security Pacific Housing Services, Inc. v. Friddle (1993), Beverly Enterprises-Arkansas, Inc. v. Hillier (2000)
30 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 Swofford v. Stafford · Shrieves v. Yarbrough · Haller v. Haller · Benedict v. Arbor Acres Farm, Inc. · Golden Host Westchase, Inc. v. First Service Corp.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Voluntary dismissal: Effect Thereof. Subject to the provisions of Rule 23(d) and Rule 66, an action may be dismissed without prejudice to a future action by the plaintiff before the final submission of the case to the jury, or to the court where the trial is by the court, provided, however, that such dismissal operates as an adjudication on the merits when filed by a plaintiff who has once dismissed in any court of the United States or of any state an action based upon or including the same claim, . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wright v. Eddinger“[i]n any case where a set-off or counterclaim has been previously presented, the defendant shall have the right of proceeding on his claim although the plaintiff may have dismissed his action.”
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.