Lanner v. Wimmer’s Empirical Analysis
662 F.2d 1349 · 1981
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2019
6 federal appellate · 10 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 Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Lemon v. Kurtzman · Wisconsin v. Yoder
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the [action] must have a secular legislative purpose; second, its principal or primary effect must be one that neither advances nor inhibits religion; finally, the [action] must not foster “an excessive government entanglement with religion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is not 'fatal if some members of the class might prefer not to have violations of their rights remedied.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. J.D. v. Azar
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.