Meek v. Pittenger’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2000
10 federal appellate · 1 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 San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Lemon v. Kurtzman · Wisconsin v. Yoder · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Everson v. Board of Education
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“guidance, counseling and testing services; psychological services; services for exceptional children; speech and hearing services; services for the improvement of the educationally disadvantaged (such as, but not limited to, teaching English as a second language), and such other secular, neutral, nonideological services as are of benefit to nonpublie school children and are presently or hereafter provided for public school children of the Commonwealth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“books, periodicals, documents, pamphlets, photographs, reproductions, pictorial or graphic works, musical records, maps, charts, globes, sound recordings * * *, films * * *, or any other printed and published materials of a similar nature * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]hat no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever - .”
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.