LeBlanc v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2018
17 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 · Jones v. Wolf · 419 So. 2d 445 - Fluker Community Church v. Hitchens · 393 So. 2d 195 - Wilkerson v. Battiste · 425 So. 2d 348 - Rose Hill Baptist Church v. Jones
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I'm going to overrule the exception of lack of subject matter jurisdiction. We're not being asked to interpret scripture. This has nothing to do the creed of the church, this has to do with the organization of the church. And if there is no other mechanism to resolve these kinds of disputes, then either the court has to, has to do it, or it has to leave, leave it up to the people involved and, obviously, they've been unable to resolve the dispute or we wouldn't be here. And in the effort to keep peace in the community and to have things resolved in an orderly fashion without resort to physical violence or intimidation, I don't see any other way to handle this but the way that we're doing it today.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“have held that ecclesiastical matters are not at issue when a petition alleges that a pastor has been dismissed by his church members but has refused to leave and the church members ask the court to decide whether an injunction is warranted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Civil courts are prohibited from interfering in the ecclesiastical matter of a religious group, that is, in matters concerning religious discipline, faith, custom or law.”
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.