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County of Allegheny v. American Civil Liberties Union

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Abrogated
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
492 U.S. 573
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
112 of 112
Citing cases (total)
1,111
Treatment dates
2022
Abrogated
A reviewed court treats this case as abrogated by later authority. County of Allegheny v. American Civil Liberties Union's endorsement-test analysis has been abrogated; the confirmed treatment is listed below. The Supreme Court later said it had abandoned that test.
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DeStefano v. Emergency Housing Group, Inc. previously described the endorsement inquiry as viable for prominent religious displays and decided a different funding question under other precedent. All 112 flagged citations have been read.

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.

1,111 later cases cite County of Allegheny v. American Civil Liberties Union; 112 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

Abrogated

  • The Supreme Court identified County of Allegheny with the endorsement test and declared that test abandoned in favor of historical practices and understandings.

    Kennedy v. Bremerton School District · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    See, e.g., County of Allegheny v. American Civil Liberties Union, Greater Pittsburgh Chapter, 492 U. S. 573, 593. But—given the apparent “shortcomings” associated with Lemon’s “ambitiou[s],” ... this Court long ago abandoned Lemon and its endorsement test offshoot.
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