Lemon v. Sloan’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
3 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000D
Relies on Flast v. Cohen · Lemon v. Kurtzman · Everson v. Board of Education · Walz v. Tax Comm'n of City of New York · Engel v. Vitale
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for pupils attending nonpublic schools. The statute was held to be in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. (b) A Pennsylvania Act providing for reimbursement of tuition payments to parents whose children attend nonpublic schools was declared unconstitutional in spite of a legislative declaration that parents who send their children to nonpublic schools assist the State in reducing the rising cost of public education, and that if children now attending nonpublic schools were forced to transfer to public schools”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If parents cannot afford to provide religious education for their children in sectarian schools without state aid, then by providing a program for aiding the parents, the state is plainly advancing religious education. The state has no more power to subsidize parents in providing a religious education for their child than it has to subsidize church-related schools to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The state cannot maintain that the Act has the purpose of promoting education by supporting nonpublic schools and then deny that the effect of the Act is to aid these schools.”
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.