Geraci v. Eckankar’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 9 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2019
8 federal appellate · 9 district · 7 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 42 U.S.C. § 2000B
Relies on Lemon v. Kurtzman · Employment Division Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. L Smith · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. · Ohio Civil Rights Commission v. Dayton Christian Schools, Inc.
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]f courts begin to question a church's basis for doctrinal decisions, a church may be compelled to conform its religious beliefs with the government's or the majority culture's beliefs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) specificity and precision [of the statement]; (2) verifiability; (3) literary and social context in which it was made, and (4) public context.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whether a statement can be interpreted as stating facts or can be proven false is a question of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.