Rojas v. Fitch’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2015
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 26 U.S.C. § 3301 (Federal Unemployment Tax Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 3309 (Federal Unemployment Tax Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1341
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Allen v. Wright · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Lemon v. Kurtzman
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“), 26 U.S.C. §§ 3301-3311, violate the Establishment Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the federal Constitution, as well as Article I, § 3 of the Rhode Island Constitution, which protects the Freedom of Religion. She named as defendants the director of the Rhode Island Department of Employment and Training (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rojas v. Fitch“First, the statute must have a secular legislative purpose; second, its principal or primary effect must be one that neither advances or inhibits religion; finally, the statute must not foster 'an excessive government entanglement with religion.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rojas v. Fitch“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rojas v. Fitch
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.