Locke Governor of Washington et al. v. Davey’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
116 federal appellate · 22 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 339 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Cutter et al. v. Wilkinson Director Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (2005), Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. (2007)
116 federal appellate · 22 district · 59 state decisions — followed in 17 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDavey v. Locke (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Sherbert v. Verner · Craig v. Boren · Employment Division Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. L Smith · Cornelius v. NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, 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 339 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“impose[d] neither criminal nor civil sanctions on any type of religious service or rite,” and where it”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he Promise Scholarship Program is not a forum for speech. The purpose of the Promise Scholarship Program is to assist students from low- and middle-income families with the cost of postsecondary education, not to encourage a diversity of views from private speakers---- Our cases dealing with speech forums are simply inapplicable.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]o public money or property shall be appropriated for or applied to any religious worship, exercise or instruction, or the support of any religious establishment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.