Kocher v. Bickley’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 1401 · 26 U.S.C. § 3127 (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Wisconsin v. Yoder · Sherbert v. Verner · Employment Division Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. L Smith · City of Boerne v. Flores
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mobley v. Coleman
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.