O'Connor’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
12 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Pearson v. Stewart (In Re Pearson) (2008), Hendrickson v. AFSCME Council 18 (2021)
12 district · 2 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 Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Lemon v. Kurtzman · School District of Abington Township Pennsylvania v. Schempp J Murray III
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not limited to the 'information gleaned simply from viewing the challenged display.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“whether the government has endorsed a particular religious display depends in large part on the display's particular physical setting.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“I see no test-related substitute for the exercise of legal judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.