Davies v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2011
8 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
Relies on J. Gordon Turnbull, Inc. v. Commissioner · Hilltop Village, Inc. v. Kerrville Independent School District · Santa Rosa Infirmary v. City of San Antonio · River Oaks Garden Club v. City of Houston · Morning Cheer, Inc. v. Board of County Commissioners
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(5) The camp is used for camp purposes for sixty days during the summer and it has been used during other times in the year by the Clergy Conference of the Diocese of Dallas, Parish Vestries, the Granbury Optimist Club, the Granbury Square Dance Club, the National Organization of Women, the Fort Worth League of Women Voters and the Distributive Education Class from Granbury High School. “(8) There is no program at Camp Crucis which results in the strengthening of muscles or the building of the body. “(11) In a six day period a child may get to play softball one afternoon. “(12) The primary purpose of Camp Cru-cis is to create a religious atmosphere for children. The owner of the property, A. Donald Davies, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas, is ‘not concerned about building muscles as that is not the Church’s business unless it is spiritual muscles’. “(13) There is nothing in the organization papers of the Episcopal Diocese of North Texas which states that it is formed for the purpose of religious, educational and physical development of boys and girls, young men and young women. “(16) While the Camp is used for recreational purposes, there is no physical development program within the common definition of such term.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davies v. Meyer
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.