Marsa v. Wernik’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably Right to Choose v. Byrne (1982), State v. Cameron (1985)
12 federal appellate · 9 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 · West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette · School District of Abington Township Pennsylvania v. Schempp J Murray III · Everson v. Board of Education · Walz v. Tax Comm'n of City of New York
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an atmosphere conducive to open exchanges, cooperative participation, and tolerant and conscientious deliberations of all those present....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“directed toward establishing a solemn atmosphere and serious tone for the board meetings”
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.