Larkin v. Grendel's Den, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
225 federal appellate · 69 district · 124 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 611 later decisions (44 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Lynch v. Donnelly (1984), County of Allegheny v. American Civil Liberties Union (1989)
225 federal appellate · 69 district · 124 state decisions — followed in 24 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Lemon v. Kurtzman · Parker v. Brown · Grayned v. City of Rockford
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 611 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he mere appearance of a joint exercise of legislative authority by Church and State provides a significant symbolic benefit to religion in the minds of some by reason of the power conferred.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he churches' power under the statute [was] standardless”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tarik-El v. Conley · Dumont v. Lyon“`a fusion of governmental and religious functions,'”
5 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.