Americans United for Separation of Church & State, Inc. v. United States Department of Health, Education & Welfare’s Empirical Analysis
619 F.2d 252 · 1980
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2020 · most notably Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. (1982), Allen v. Wright (1984)
28 federal appellate · 2 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Flast v. Cohen · Sierra Club v. Morton
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“challenged governmental action caused 'injury in fact' to their shared individuated right”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'that concrete adverseness which sharpens the presentation of issues upon which the court so largely depends for elimination of difficult ... questions.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“arguably within the zone of interests to be protected or regulated by the statute or constitutional guarantee in question.”
3 later decisions 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.