Nunn v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2019
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co. · Shelley v. Kraemer · Flagg Brothers Inc v. Brooks J Lefkowitz · Moose Lodge No. 107 v. Irvis · Serbian Eastern Orthodox Diocese for United States and Canada v. Milivojevich
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]t is certain that the ecclesiastical issue of the validity of the plaintiffs’ speaking by inspiration of the Holy Spirit pervades the present controversy and removes it from this court’s competence. *** It is the very nature of religious matters that ecclesiastical decisions are accepted as articles of faith, as opposed to the rational, objective mode of analysis and procedure used in secular decision-making. Therefore, in the present case, constitutional concepts of due process, involving secular notions of ‘fundamental fairness’ or impermissible objectives, are therefore hardly relevant to such matters of ecclesiastical cognizance. [Citation.] Thus, the plaintiffs’ contentions that their due process rights were violated in that their contributions to the Church were expropriated by the expulsion is of no merit.” Nunn, 506 F. Supp. at 448 .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Only on rare occasions where there existed a compelling governmental interest in the regulation of public health, safety, and general welfare have the courts ventured into this protected (ecclesiastical) area. Such incursions have been cautiously made so as not to interfere with the doctrinal beliefs and internal decisions of the religious society.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Denny v. Prince“contributed considerable sums of money to the construction, maintenance, and upkeep of the Church property”
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.