Caldwell v. Caldwell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “like the plaintiffs in [religious display] cases, she also came into direct contact with a religious symbol on property owned by the government which she finds offensive; and that, just as the inability of plaintiffs in those cases freely to use public land sufficed as injury in fact, so too should it suffice that she is inhibited from freely using a government resource without running into religious symbols and theological statements which offend her.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Catholic League for Religious & Civil Rights v. City & County of San Francisco

2. “Caldwell’s asserted interest-informed participation as a citizen in school board meetings, debates, and elections, especially with respect to selection of instructional materials and how teachers teach , the theory of evolution in biology classes in the public schools-is not sufficiently differentiated and direct to confer standing on her to challenge the University of -California’s treatment of religious and anti-religious views on evolution.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 951 F. Supp. 2d 1123 - Freedom from Religion Foundation, Inc. v. Weber