Hutchison v. Thomas

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• affirming the district court’s decision to dismiss a complaint, which included claims for (1) improper application of religious provisions, (2) fraudulent or collusive or arbitrary action, (3) defamation, (4) intentional infliction of emotional distress, (5
• “The ‘neutral principles’ doctrine has never been extended to religious controversies in the areas of church government, order and discipline, nor should it be.”
• dismissing 30 common law claims under ministerial exception

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

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  Sixth Circuit· 2018-03-07· cited 56×
• Combs v. Central Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-05-14· cited 53×
• Kavanagh v. Zwilling
  S.D. New York· 2014-02-14· cited 31×
• Lee v. Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church of Pittsburgh
  Third Circuit· 2018-09-05· cited 26×
• Connor v. Archdiocese of Philadelphia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-07-20· cited 22×
• LaVonne Pfeil, Individually and as Trustee for Heirs of Henry Pfeil v. St. Matthews Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession of Worthington, Nobles County, Minnesota
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2016-04-06· cited 14×
• Lynn Starkey v. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of
  Seventh Circuit· 2022-07-28· cited 10×
• Music v. United Methodist Church
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1993-10-28· cited 8×
• Turner v. Tri-County Baptist Church of Cincinnati
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2018-11-19· cited 7×
• Rentz v. Werner
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2010-06-07· cited 6×
• Belya v. Kapral
  Second Circuit· 2023-02-08· cited 5×
• Tharp v. Hillcrest Baptist Church of Columbus
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2022-12-27· cited 3×
• Mullins v. Wicker
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2017-06-22· cited 1×
• Plishka v. Skurla
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2022-12-29· cited 1×
• GENERAL CONFERENCE CORP. v. McGill
  Sixth Circuit· 2010-08-10
• AD HOC COMMITTEE OF PARISHIONERS v. Reiss
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2010-02-23
• Rweyemamu v. Cote
  Second Circuit· 2008-03-21
• Hollins v. Methodist Healthcare
  Sixth Circuit· 2007-01-10
• Bruss v. Przybylo
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2008-09-26

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Serbian Eastern Orthodox Diocese for United States and Canada v. Milivojevich
  Supreme Court· 1976-10-04· cited 1,118×
• Presbyterian Church in US v. Mary Elizabeth Blue Hull Memorial Presbyterian Church
  Supreme Court· 1969-01-27· cited 850×
• Jones v. Wolf
  Supreme Court· 1979-07-02· cited 834×
• Gonzalez v. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila
  Supreme Court· 1929-10-14· cited 262×
• Alberts v. Devine
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-06-04· cited 112×
• Rayburn v. General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
  Fourth Circuit· 1985-09-23· cited 96×
• Hutchison v. Thomas
  Sixth Circuit· 1986-04-28· cited 65×
• Simpson v. Wells Lamont Corp.
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-05-24· cited 58×
• Joseph B. Kaufmann v. Daniel E. Sheehan, James R. Cain, and the Catholic Archbishop of Omaha, D/B/A Archdiocese of Omaha
  Eighth Circuit· 1983-05-26· cited 54×
• Nunn v. Black
  W.D. Virginia· 1981-01-14· cited 32×
• First Baptist Church of Glen Este v. State of Ohio
  S.D. Ohio· 1983-10-24· cited 22×