Smith v. Riley’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2009
8 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 Serbian Eastern Orthodox Diocese for United States and Canada v. Milivojevich · Watson v. Jones · Jones v. Wolf · Kedroff v. Saint Nicholas Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church in North America · 326 So. 2d 359 - Guilliot v. City of Kenner
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the procedural niceties attending the election of a board of directors for a non-profit religious corporation have nothing to do with religious law, custom or policy and are not ecclesiastical matters within the exclusive domain of a particular religious group.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to determine whether the Board of Trustees was legally constituted and to issue such orders necessary to enforce the church's compliance with its own Articles of Incorporation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“according to the rules provided in Roberts' Rules of Order”
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.