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Aguilar v. Felton

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Overruled
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
473 U.S. 402
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
48 of 48
Citing cases (total)
48
Treatment dates
1997
Overruled
A reviewed court has overruled this case. Aguilar v. Felton was overruled by the Supreme Court in Agostini v. Felton. All 48 flagged citations have been read, and the confirmed treatment is listed below.
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Publicly funded remedial instruction on religious school premises is no longer barred on Aguilar's reasoning.

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.

48 later cases cite Aguilar v. Felton; 48 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

  • The Supreme Court overruled Aguilar's rule barring public employees from providing safeguarded Title I remedial instruction on religious school premises.

    Agostini v. Felton · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    Accordingly, we must acknowledge that Aguilar, as well as the portion of Ball addressing Grand Rapids’ Shared Time program, are no longer good law. ... We therefore overrule Ball and Aguilar to the extent those decisions are inconsistent with our current understanding of the Establishment Clause.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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