Allen v. Morton’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 1998
9 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Lemon v. Kurtzman · School District of Abington Township Pennsylvania v. Schempp J Murray III · Walz v. Tax Comm'n of City of New York · Zorach v. Clauson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[government counsel put it at argument that if the plaintiffs didn’t like to look at the creche, they could avoid walking near the Ellipse while it was occupied by the creche. [The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia disagreed, however, and held that the pjlaintiffs were entitled, as members of the public, to enjoy the park land and its devotion to permissible public use; a government action cannot infringe that right or require them to give it up without access to the court to complain that the action is unconstitutional.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.