Cammarano v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
221 federal appellate · 48 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 623 later decisions (79 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2020 · most notably Washington v. Davis (1976), Sherbert v. Verner (1963)
221 federal appellate · 48 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedCammarano v. United States (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Roth v. United States · Thornhill v. Alabama · United States v. Harriss · Speiser v. Randall
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 623 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Petitioners are not being denied a tax deduction because they engage in constitutionally protected activities, but are simply being required to pay for those activities entirely out of their own pockets, as everyone else engaging in similar activities is required to do under the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.””
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reject[ed] the `notion that First Amendment rights are somehow not fully realized unless they are subsidized by the State.'”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was casual, almost offhand. And it has not survived reflection”
6 later decisions 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.