Berry v. Bruce’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Morris Street Baptist Church v. Dart · Fuchs v. Meisel · City of Detroit v. Michigan Public Utilities Commission · Borgman v. Bultema · Attorney General Ex Rel. Commissioner of Insurance v. Lapeer Farmers Mutual Fire Ins.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The civil courts will not enter into a consideration of church doctrine or church discipline, nor will they inquire into the regularity of the proceedings of the church judicatories having cognizance of such matters. To assume such jurisdiction would not only be an attempt by the civil courts to deal with matters of which they have no special knowledge, but it would be inconsistent with complete religious liberty untrammeled by State authority.'”
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.