United States v. Christian Echoes National Ministry, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 6 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably California v. Grace Brethren Church (1982), Walters v. National Assn. of Radiation Survivors (1985)
23 federal appellate · 6 district · 14 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 501 · 28 U.S.C. § 1252 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on United States v. James Griggs Raines · Ex parte Bransford · Fleming v. Rhodes
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the [statute], by its own terms, infringe[] constitutional freedoms in the circumstances of the particular case.”
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.