Tate v. Akers’s Empirical Analysis
565 F.2d 1166 · 1977
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1995
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Lemon v. Kurtzman · Everson v. Board of Education · In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions · Reynolds v. States · Breard v. City of Alexandria La
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“6-6-1: (Solicitations) Peddlers Prohibited: (A) Definitions. 1. “Solicitations” shall mean the going in or upon one or more private residences of the City of Alamogordo by any person not having been requested or invited to do so by the owner or owners, or occupants thereof, for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or any article or thing of whatsoever description intended for the use or benefit of the recipient thereof, property either real or personal, tangible or intangible, or services or for the purpose of peddling or hawking any of the same, or for the purpose of making or requesting appointments or procuring interviews or arranging for demonstrations or explanations preliminary to any actual solicitation of orders, selling, peddling or hawking of any of the same. * * * * * * 5. “Religious shall mean having to do with all forms of belief in the existence of superior beings exercising power over human beings by violation, imposing rules of conduct, with future rewards and punishments. (B) Nuisance Declared. It shall be unlawful for any person to go in or upon any private residence of the City of Alamogordo for the purpose of solicitations. * * * * * * Section 6-&-l(C) — Exceptions: The provisions of this section shall not apply to any person desiring to solicit for charitable or religious purposes; provided that said person’s charitable or religious organization has obtained a permit from the City Manager prior to the time the solici”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“formal program of the church and has been relied on for more than a hundred years as a primary means of spreading their gospel and gaining converts. A literature evangelist, or colporteur, is a credentialed representative of the church and is considered to be engaged in a form of ministry.”
1 later decision 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.