Fannin v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2016
10 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 Everson v. Board of Education · Board of Ed. of Central School Dist. No. 1 v. Allen · Meek v. Pittenger · Wolman v. Walter · Cochran v. Louisiana State 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No portion of any fund or tax now existing, or that may hereafter be raised or levied for educational purposes, shall be appropriated to, or used by, or in aid of, any church, sectarian or denominational school.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"We cannot sell the people of Kentucky a mule and call it a horse, even if we believe the public needs a mule."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]f the people of Kentucky wish to change their position in this matter, it is their right to do so”
2 later decisions 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.