New Life Baptist Church Academy v. Town of East Longmeadow’s Empirical Analysis
885 F.2d 940 · 1989
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2021 · most notably Zelman Superintendent of Public Instruction of Ohio et al. v. Simmons-Harris et al. (2002), Dole v. Shenandoah Baptist Church (1990)
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Lemon v. Kurtzman · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Wisconsin v. Yoder
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“do not threaten interference with religious practices, prayer, or religious teaching; and the record, while indicating a sincere religious scruple, does not suggest that enforcement of the [state] procedures would destroy a religious community’s way of life. Nor does the record support the view that the Academy, left on its own, would provide “ideal” or even adequate secular education. All these factors make this case quite unlike Yoder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.