State v. Vogenthaler’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 151 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably State v. Fish (1985), Maes v. Thomas (1995)
4 federal appellate · 151 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 · Walz v. Tax Comm'n of City of New York · Ristaino v. Ross · Tilton v. Richardson · Examining Board of Engineers v. de Otero
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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`church' as expressive of a place is not limited to the Christian religion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.