State v. Whisner’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Attorney General v. Bailey (1982), New Jersey State Board of Higher Education v. Board of Directors of Shelton College (1982)
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 36 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 San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Lemon v. Kurtzman · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Wisconsin v. Yoder
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“effectively eradicate the distinction between public and non-public education,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““what the state gives to a non-public school through including a requirement in the ‘minimum standards’ that the operation of the school must be consistent with its own stated philosophy (EDb-401-02[A] and EDb-401-03[A]), it takes away by compelling adherence to all the ‘minimum standards,’ the effect of which is to obliterate the ‘philosophy’ of the school and impose that of the state.” 351 N.E.2d at 770 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Shaver“there is no doubt as to the power of a State, having a high responsibility for the education of its citizens; to impose reasonable regulations for the control and duration of basic education.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kielpinski
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.