5 Haw. App. 411 - State v. Blake’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2009
3 federal appellate · 11 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 Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Wisconsin v. Yoder · 61 Cal. 2d 716 - People v. Woody · United States v. Middleton · State v. Patterson
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.
“[w]here a constitutional challenge on the First Amendment religion grounds is made, we apply the following test: [T]o determine whether there exists an unconstitutional infringement of the freedom of religion, it would be necessary to examine whether or not the activity interfered with by the state was motivated by and rooted in a legitimate and sincerely held religious belief, whether or not the parties’ free exercise of religion had been burdened by the regulation, the extent or impact of the regulation on the parties’ religious practices, and whether or not the state had a compelling interest in the regulation which justified such a burden.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Fergerstrom
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.