Episcopal Diocese v. DeVine’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2022
2 district · 7 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 Serbian Eastern Orthodox Diocese for United States and Canada v. Milivojevich · Watson v. Jones · Jones v. Wolf · City of St. Louis v. Thomas W. Garland, Inc. · Plaut v. Spendthrift Farm, 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a dispute [that] directly concerns a purely secular matter (such as rights to the real property) and does not implicate matters of church doctrine, discipline, or authority, [and therefore] a court may exert jurisdiction over, and resolve, the dispute by the application of neutral principles of law.”
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.