Carson v. Makin’s Empirical Analysis
2022
Citation profile
1 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sherbert v. Verner · Plyler v. Doe · Agostini v. Felton Chancellor Board of Education of the City of New York · School District of Abington Township Pennsylvania v. Schempp J Murray III · Everson v. Board of Education
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he definition of a particular program can always be manipulated to subsume the challenged condition,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the First Amendment ... reduced to a simple semantic exercise.”
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.