Aronow v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
432 F.2d 242 · 1970
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Gaylor v. United States (1996), William Books Michael Suetkamp v. City of Elkhart Indiana (2000)
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 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 McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Walz v. Tax Comm'n of City of New York · Ex parte Poresky · Samuel Bailey v. Joe T. Patterson · Engel v. Vitale
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has no theological or ritualistic impact.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be declared in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. DISSENT 267 DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge, dissenting. 268 In 1956 Congress enacted a law, now codified at 36 U.S.C. § 302, declaring the national motto to be”
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.