15 Cited authorities

  1. Washington v. Glucksberg

    521 U.S. 702 (1997)   Cited 2,629 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that there is no fundamental right to physician-assisted suicide
  2. Lemon v. Kurtzman

    403 U.S. 602 (1971)   Cited 2,333 times   23 Legal Analyses
    Holding school-aid statute authorizing government inspection of parochial school records created an impermissible "intimate and continuing relationship between church and state" because it required the state "to determine which expenditures are religious and which are secular"
  3. Cruzan ex rel. Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health

    497 U.S. 261 (1990)   Cited 852 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a "person has a constitutionally protected liberty interest in refusing unwanted medical treatment"
  4. 511 West 232nd Owners Corp. v. Jennifer Realty Co.

    98 N.Y.2d 144 (N.Y. 2002)   Cited 2,077 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the plaintiffs sufficiently pled a breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing by alleging that the defendant, which contracted to convert its building into a cooperative, rejected bona fide purchase offers from prospective tenants
  5. McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union

    545 U.S. 844 (2005)   Cited 400 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that copies of the Ten Commandments posted in municipal courtrooms were hung to advance sectarian purpose, in part based on statements made by judicial official at the time the Commandments were posted
  6. Vacco v. Quill

    521 U.S. 793 (1997)   Cited 482 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that New York's assisted suicide law had a rational basis, therefore comporting with equal protection, despite its controversy among medical experts
  7. Edwards v. Aguillard

    482 U.S. 578 (1987)   Cited 595 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that Louisiana's Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science in Public School Instruction Act was unconstitutional because the act's primary purpose was the promotion of a particular religious belief
  8. Everson v. Board of Education

    330 U.S. 1 (1947)   Cited 1,296 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a township may reimburse parents for the cost of transporting their children to parochial schools
  9. People v. Dietze

    75 N.Y.2d 47 (N.Y. 1989)   Cited 195 times
    Reversing a harassment charge where "[t]here is nothing in the record demonstrating that defendant's statement that she would 'beat the crap out of [complainant] some day or night in the street' was either serious, should reasonably have been taken to be serious, or was confirmed by other words or acts showing that it was anything more than a crude outburst"
  10. People v. Correa

    2010 N.Y. Slip Op. 4662 (N.Y. 2010)   Cited 70 times   1 Legal Analyses
    In People v Correa (supra, 15 NY3d at 224), the Court of Appeals noted the existence of this open question but did not decide it.
  11. Section 125.15 - Manslaughter in the second degree

    N.Y. Penal Law § 125.15   Cited 680 times
    Requiring only recklessness
  12. Section 120.03 - Vehicular assault in the second degree

    N.Y. Penal Law § 120.03   Cited 68 times
    Defining second-degree vehicular assault as causing serious physical injury as a result of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated or impaired by the use of a drug