Boudette v. Barnette’s Empirical Analysis
923 F.2d 754 · 1991
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Sharma v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1996), In Re: Michael Sheehan (2001)
49 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 2072
Relies on Shihshu Walter Wei v. State of Hawaii · Townsel v. County of Contra Costa · McLinn F/v Fjord Johnson F/v Supersonic Churchill v. F/v Fjord F/v Supersonic F/v Supersonic · Hart v. United States
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a presumption that when a statute designates certain ... manners of operation, all omissions should be understood as exclusions.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen two statutes conflict the general rule is that the statute last in time prevails as the most recent expression of the legislature's will”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) the party to be served received actual notice of the lawsuit; (b) the defendant would suffer no prejudice; and (c) plaintiff would be severely prejudiced if his complaint were dismissed.”
3 later decisions 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.