Simmons-Harris v. Zelman’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We would be loath to adopt a rule grounding the constitutionality of a facially neutral law on annual reports reciting the extent to which various classes of private citizens claimed benefits under the law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Zelman Superintendent of Public Instruction of Ohio et al. v. Simmons-Harris et al.

2. “[s]uch an approach would scarcely provide the certainty that this field stands in need of, nor can we perceive principled standards by which such statistical evidence might be evaluated.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Zelman Superintendent of Public Instruction of Ohio et al. v. Simmons-Harris et al.

3. “the one cardinal objective of education to which all others point is to develop devotion to God as our Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Doris Simmons-Harris v. Susan Tave Zelman