Finlator v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis
902 F.2d 1158 · 1990
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 32 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2014 · most notably Hibbs Director Arizona Department of Revenue v. Winn et al. (2004), De Sole v. United States (1991)
11 federal appellate · 32 district · 3 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Warth v. Seldin · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Flast v. Cohen · Sierra Club v. Morton
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“need not protest the State's sales tax in order to claim the Exemption, while purchasers of other texts, both sacred and non-sacred, must protest the sales tax in order to claim the Exemption. Simply stated, an injury is created by the very fact that the Secretary imposes additional burdens on the appellants not placed on purchasers of”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Periodicals that are published or distributed by a religious faith and that consist wholly of writings promulgating the teaching of the faith and books that consist wholly of writings sacred to a religious faith.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“without first reviewing said publication.”
2 later decisions 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.