Everson v. Board of Education

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Establishment Clause case United States Supreme Court case landmark case

Everson v. Board of Education is a 1947 U.S. Supreme Court case that applied the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause to the states and articulated the modern “wall of separation between church and state” doctrine.

Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
Epperson v. Arkansas	1
Everson v. Board of Education of the Township of Ewing	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Establishment Clause case ⓘ United States Supreme Court case ⓘ landmark case ⓘ
appliedThrough	Fourteenth Amendment ⓘ
appliedTo	states ⓘ
areaOfLaw	church–state relations ⓘ constitutional law ⓘ
arguedUnder	First Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ
citation	330 U.S. 1 ⓘ
citedPhraseSource	Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists ⓘ
citedSource	Notes on the State of Virginia ⓘ surface form: writings of Thomas Jefferson
concerns	reimbursement of transportation costs for children attending parochial schools ⓘ use of public funds in relation to religious schools ⓘ
constitutionalProvisionInterpreted	Establishment Clause ⓘ surface form: First Amendment Establishment Clause Due Process Clause ⓘ surface form: Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
courtTerm	October Term 1946 ⓘ
decidedBy	Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ
decisionDate	1947-02-10 ⓘ
dissentingOpinionBy	Felix Frankfurter ⓘ surface form: Justice Felix Frankfurter Justice Frank Murphy ⓘ Robert H. Jackson ⓘ surface form: Justice Robert H. Jackson Justice Wiley B. Rutledge ⓘ
fullCaseName	Everson v. Board of Education self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Everson v. Board of Education of the Township of Ewing
hasJurisdiction	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
held	Establishment Clause applies to state and local governments ⓘ reimbursement for transportation to parochial schools did not violate the Establishment Clause ⓘ
influenced	subsequent Establishment Clause jurisprudence ⓘ
involvesClause	Establishment Clause ⓘ
joinedByInMajority	Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson ⓘ Justice Harold H. Burton ⓘ Justice Stanley Reed ⓘ Justice William O. Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ
keyPhrase	wall of separation between church and state ⓘ
languageOfProceedings	English ⓘ
legalDoctrineArticulated	wall of separation between church and state ⓘ
legalIssue	whether a New Jersey statute violated the Establishment Clause ⓘ
majorityOpinionBy	Hugo L. Black ⓘ surface form: Justice Hugo Black
originatedIn	New Jersey, United States ⓘ surface form: New Jersey
party	Arch R. Everson ⓘ Board of Education of the Township of Ewing ⓘ
relatedConcept	incorporation doctrine ⓘ
relatedTo	Engel v. Vitale ⓘ Lemon v. Kurtzman ⓘ Reynolds v. United States ⓘ
stateLawChallenged	New Jersey statute authorizing reimbursement for transportation to schools ⓘ
vote	5–4 ⓘ
yearDecided	1947 ⓘ

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this entity surface form: Everson v. Board of Education of the Township of Ewing

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Cantwell v. Connecticut → relatedCase → Everson v. Board of Education ⓘ

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State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes → relatedCase → Everson v. Board of Education ⓘ

this entity surface form: Epperson v. Arkansas