Geary v. Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish School’s Empirical Analysis
7 F.3d 324 · 1993
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 10 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably Wallis v. Jr Simplot Company (1994), Brewer v. Quaker State Oil Refining Corp. (1995)
24 federal appellate · 10 district · 9 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 29 U.S.C. § 623 (§ 4 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · Lemon v. Kurtzman
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]otwithstanding [plaintiff's] apparent general employment obligation to be a visible witness to the Catholic Church's philosophy and principles, a court could adjudicate [plaintiff's] claims without the entanglement that would follow were employment of clergy or religious leaders involved.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when the pretext inquiry neither traverses questions of the validity of religious beliefs nor forces a court to choose between parties' competing religious visions, that inquiry does not present a significant risk of entanglement.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a permissible construction of the statute that avoids that risk.”
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.