Paster v. Tussey’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018
4 federal appellate · 10 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 20 U.S.C. § 241A
Relies on Lemon v. Kurtzman · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Everson v. Board of Education · Walz v. Tax Comm'n of City of New York · Committee for Public Education & Religious Liberty v. Nyquist
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no money shall ever be taken from the public treasury, directly or indirectly, in aid of any church, sect or denomination of religion ... and that no preference shall be given to nor any discrimination made against any church, sect or creed of religion, or any form of religious faith or worship.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“not only more explicit but more restrictive than the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Widmar v. Vincent“This case involves the expenditure of `state' funds and not the expenditure of `federal' funds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mallory v. Barrera
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.