Williamson v. Brevard Cnty.’s Empirical Analysis
928 F.3d 1296 · 2019
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
August 2024
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Everson v. Board of Education · Epperson v. Arkansas · Lee v. Weisman
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“members of the Brevard County Board of Commissioners ha[d] plenary authority, on a rotating basis, to invite whomever they want[ed] to deliver invocations, with no consistent standards or expectation of - 35 - inclusiveness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“indicated that the specific religious beliefs of a prospective invocation-giver would have a real impact on whether they would be invited or permitted to give an invocation or excluded from consideration,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[i]f the course and practice over time shows that the invocations denigrate nonbelievers or religious minorities, threaten damnation, or preach conversion,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.