782 F. Supp. 1420 - Murphy v. Bilbray’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2015
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Stanley v. Illinois · Lemon v. Kurtzman · West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“commanding presence and nightly illumination at the very summit of Mt. Soledad render it the focal point of the public park in which it stands--so much so that it may be said, as between the Latin cross and the park, it is not clear which is meant to adorn which.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the economic expense of removing the cross, of rendering non-public the property on which the cross stands or of otherwise attempting to cure the present infirmity may not bear on the constitutional challenge presently before the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The present lawsuit poses constitutional issues only. It does not provide a sufficient legal or evidentiary basis from which to rule on the sufficiency and application of the deed's reversionary clause.”
1 later decision 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.