Allen v. Hickel’s Empirical Analysis
424 F.2d 944 · 1970
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 16 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Lynch v. Donnelly (1984), 22 Cal. 3d 792 - Fox v. City of Los Angeles (1978)
58 federal appellate · 16 district · 3 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 Baker v. Carr · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Flast v. Cohen · School District of Abington Township Pennsylvania v. Schempp J Murray III · Zorach v. Clauson
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]laintiffs were entitled, as members of the public, to enjoy the park land and its devotion to permissible public use; a government action cannot infringe that right or require them to give it up without access to the court to complain that the action is unconstitutional.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The duty of the courts is to strike a proper balance. The area is a sensitive one, involving questions of degree. The question is not whether there is any religious effect at all, but rather whether that effect, if present, is substantial.” Allen v. Hickel, 138 U.S.App.D.C. 31, 36 , 424 F.2d 944, 949 (1970) (emphasis supplied).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Government may depict objects with spiritual content, but it may not promote or give its stamp of approval to such spiritual content.”
3 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.