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Wolman v. Walter

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Overruled in part
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
433 U.S. 229
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
13 of 13
Citing cases (total)
13
Treatment dates
2000
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. Wolman v. Walter was overruled in part on loans of secular instructional materials and equipment to religious schools. All 13 flagged citations have been read.
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The confirmed treatment is listed below. Mitchell v. Helms upheld a comparable aid program; Wolman's separate approvals of textbooks, testing, and other services were not the part displaced.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

13 later cases cite Wolman v. Walter; 13 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in Part

  • The Supreme Court upheld aid supplying secular instructional materials and equipment to religious schools, displacing Wolman's contrary prohibition; four Justices expressly called for overruling Wolman to that extent.

    Mitchell v. Helms · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    Accordingly, we hold that Chapter 2 is not a law respecting an establishment of religion. Jefferson Parish need not exclude religious schools from its Chapter 2 program.19 To the extent that Meek and Wolman conflict with this holding, we overrule them.
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