Mueller v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2011
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Lemon v. Kurtzman · Walz v. Tax Comm'n of City of New York · Committee for Public Education & Religious Liberty v. Nyquist · National Labor Relations Board v. Catholic Bishop
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.
“A court is not irretrievably bound by its own precedents, but in the interests of uniformity, stability, and certainty in the law, will follow the rule of law established in earlier cases unless clearly convinced that the rule was originally erroneous or is no longer sound because of changed conditions, and that more good than harm would result from a departure from precedent. IB Moore’s Federal Practice P 0.402(3.-1) (1965 & Supp. 1980-81).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Olson v. Anderson · In Re Sanchez“neutral on its face and in its application and does not have a primary effect of either advancing or inhibiting religion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mueller v. Allen · Mueller v. Allen“1. Tuition in the ordinary sense. 2. Tuition to public school students who attend public schools outside their residence school districts. 3. Certain summer school tuition. 4. Tuition charged by a school for slow learner private tutoring services. 5. Tuition for instruction provided by an elementary or secondary school to students who are physically unable to attend classes at such school. 6. Tuition charged by a private tutor or by a school that is not an elementary or secondary school if the instruction is acceptable for credit in an elementary or secondary school. 7. Montessori School tuition for grades K through 12. 8. Tuition for driver education when it is part of the school curriculum.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mueller v. Allen
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.