State v. Celmer’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably State v. Barnes (1980), Bell v. Township of Stafford (1988)
3 district · 24 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 Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Lemon v. Kurtzman · Everson v. Board of Education · Walz v. Tax Comm'n of City of New York · National Labor Relations Board v. Catholic Bishop
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Regardless, however, of the precise phraseology that one utilizes to describe this First Amendment mandate, there can be no question but that at a minimum it precludes a state from ceding governmental powers to a religious organization. Yet ... our legislature has sought to do just that. In effect, the Legislature has decreed that in Ocean Grove the Church shall be the State and the State shall be the Church. Individuals chosen by the followers of a particular faith to safeguard their spiritual and cultural way of life have been accorded authority to determine what shall constitute acceptable modes of conduct for Methodists and non-Methodists alike. Government and religion are so inextricably intertwined as to be inseparable from one another. Such a fusion of secular and ecclesiastical power ... violates both the letter and the spirit of the First Amendment____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“When a person has violated a provision of this subtitle [Motor Vehicle and Traffic Laws], the judge may, within 30 days after the commission of the offense, issue process directed to a constable, police officer or the director for the appearance or arrest of the person charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Sirvent
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.