laical chaplaincy
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 280 U.S. 1 - Gonzalez v. Roman Catholic Archbishop · 1929Most cited · 487 citing opinions
A laical or mercenary chaplaincy is one instituted without the intervention of ecclesiastical authority, does not require a title in order to be ordained, and is not subject to ecclesiastical authority.
How often courts cite the case defining “laical chaplaincy”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “laical chaplaincy” — 481 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.