Katcoff v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis
755 F.2d 223 · 1985
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2022 · most notably Lee v. Weisman (1992), Cutter et al. v. Wilkinson Director Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (2005)
27 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 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 10 U.S.C. § 3062 · 10 U.S.C. § 3073 · 10 U.S.C. § 3547
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Scheuer v. Rhodes · First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Flast v. Cohen
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“obligates Congress, upon creating an Army to make religion available to soldiers who have been moved by the Army to areas of the world where religion of their own denominations is not available to them”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonably relevant and necessary to furtherance of our national defense”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the current army chaplaincy were viewed in isolation, there could be little doubt that it would fail to meet the Lemon v. Kurtzman conditions. Although the ultimate objective of the chaplaincy may be secular in the sense that it seeks to maintain the efficiency of the army by improving the morale of our military personnel, its immediate purpose is to promote religion by making it available, albeit on a voluntary basis, to our armed forces.”
2 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.