Lund v. Rowan County’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate ·

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he principal audience for these invocations [wa]s not . . . the public but lawmakers themselves, who may find that a moment of prayer or quiet reflection sets the mind to a higher purpose and thereby eases the task of governing.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Boston

2. “[t]he opening of sessions of legislative and other deliberative public bodies with prayer is deeply embedded in the history and tradition of this country,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Boston

3. “remains a fact-sensitive one that considers both the setting in which the prayer arises and the audience to whom it is directed,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Boston