Dausch v. Rykse’s Empirical Analysis
52 F.3d 1425 · 1994
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Gutierrez v. Peters (1997), Gibson v. Brewer (1997)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 Conley v. Gibson · Hishon v. King & Spalding · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Lemon v. Kurtzman · 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"to define a reasonable duty standard and to evaluate [the cleric’s] conduct against that standard, an inquiry identical to that which Illinois has declined to undertake in the context of a clergy malpractice claim and one that is of doubtful validity under the Free Exercise Clause. It is clear that Illinois would not entertain a claim for breach of fiduciary obligation under the circumstances alleged here.” Dausch, 52 F.3d at 1438 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“has not been extended to situations in which the conduct in question does not bear such a direct relationship to the doctrinal or organizational aspects of religious practice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]ort claims for behavior by a cleric that does not require the examination of religious doctrine are cognizable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.