Van Orden v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
351 F.3d 173 · 2003
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 20 U.S.C. § 9172
Relies on Lemon v. Kurtzman · School District of Abington Township Pennsylvania v. Schempp J Murray III · Lynch v. Donnelly · County of Allegheny v. American Civil Liberties Union · Wallace v. Jaffree
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he guiding principle is government neutrality toward religion in the sense that a state cannot favor religion over nonreligion or one religion over another[,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“proper application of First Amendment principles demands a sense of proportion and [the] inquiry is fact-sensitive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not of the uninformed, the casual passerby, the heckler, or the reaction of a single individual.”
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.