Mark Spell v. John Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
2020
Citation profile
Relationships
Relies on Employment Division Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. L Smith · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah · Henning Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Burke v. Barnes
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t makes sense . . . that a case challenging a statute, executive order, or local ordinance usually becomes moot if the challenged law has expired or been repealed”
1 later decision 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.