Weisman v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2012
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 Lemon v. Kurtzman · School District of Abington Township Pennsylvania v. Schempp J Murray III · Everson v. Board of Education · Texas v. Johnson · County of Allegheny v. American Civil Liberties Union
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“particularly relied on Lemon in every case involving the sensitive relationship between government and religion in the education of our children.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This result is as contrary to the requirements of the Establishment Clause as is ... composition of an official state prayer.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion ...”
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.