Oxford v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 1997
13 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 Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Reynolds v. States · Cobb v. Harrington · WD Haden Company v. Dodgen
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is also the intent of the legislature that freedom of religion of all citizens is inviolate, and nothing in this chapter gives a governmental agency authority to regulate, control, supervise, or in any way be involved in the form, manner, or content of religious instruction or the curriculum of a school sponsored by a religious organization.”
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.