Protestant Episcopal Church v. Barker

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the resolution of church property disputes turns on the unique facts of each church’s organizational structure
• concluding that no trust existed in favor of PECUSA or local diocese as to parishes whose articles of incorporation did not subject property to control of national church
• concluding no express trust was created by the articles of incorporation because the articles “say nothing about disposition of church property on dissolution of the corporation”
• and implicitly the more recent Court of Appeal decisions using the neutral principles approach
• and implicitly the more recent Court of Appeal decisions using the neutral principles approach

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

31 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Episcopal Church Cases
  California Supreme Court· 2009-01-05· cited 206×
• Bishop and Diocese of Colorado v. Mote
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1986-01-13· cited 46×
• Singh v. Singh
  California Court of Appeal· 2004-01-20· cited 28×
• Concord Christian Center v. Open Bible Standard Churches
  California Court of Appeal· 2005-08-30· cited 25×
• Rector, Wardens & Vestrymen of Trinity-St. Michael's Parish, Inc. v. Episcopal Church in the Diocese
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-03-02· cited 25×
• Korean United Presbyterian Church v. Presbytery of the Pacific
  California Court of Appeal· 1991-05-23· cited 21×
• Episcopal Church in Diocese of Connecticut v. Gauss
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2011-10-11· cited 21×
• Iglesia Evangelica Latina, Inc. v. Southern Pacific Latin American Dist. of the Assemblies of God
  California Court of Appeal· 2009-04-27· cited 18×
• Parish of the Advent v. Protestant Episcopal Diocese
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-12-17· cited 18×
• New v. Kroeger
  California Court of Appeal· 2008-10-21· cited 16×
• Metropolitan Philip v. Steiger
  California Court of Appeal· 2000-08-02· cited 15×
• Guardian Angel Polish National Catholic Church of Los Angeles, Inc. v. Grotnik
  California Court of Appeal· 2004-05-18· cited 15×
• Korean Philadelphia Presbyterian Church v. California Presbytery
  California Court of Appeal· 2000-01-27· cited 15×
• St. Sava Mission Corp. v. Serbian Eastern Orthodox Diocese
  California Court of Appeal· 1990-09-19· cited 13×
• State v. Jacobson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1994-07-27· cited 12×
• Murray v. Murray
  California Court of Appeal· 1994-07-12· cited 12×
• California-Nevada Annual Conference of United Methodist Church v. St. Luke's United Methodist Church
  California Court of Appeal· 2004-08-13· cited 12×
• Diocese of San Joaquin v. Gunner
  California Court of Appeal· 2016-04-05· cited 12×
• Episcopal Diocese v. DeVine
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2003-10-23· cited 11×
• Central Coast Baptist Ass'n v. First Baptist Church of Las Lomas
  California Court of Appeal· 2007-08-23· cited 10×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• 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×
• Los Angeles County Pioneer Society v. Historical Society
  California Supreme Court· 1953-05-05· cited 75×
• Rosicrucian Fellowship v. Rosicrucian Fellowship Non-Sectarian Church
  California Supreme Court· 1952-06-20· cited 63×
• Presbyterian Church in United States v. Eastern Heights Presbyterian Church
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1969-04-14· cited 55×
• Carnes v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-01-06· cited 55×
• Protestant Episc. Church, Diocese of NJ v. Graves
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1980-07-24· cited 50×
• Pacific Home v. County of Los Angeles
  California Supreme Court· 1953-12-23· cited 37×
• Brown v. Memorial National Home Foundation
  California Court of Appeal· 1958-08-01· cited 31×
• Presbytery of Riverside v. Community Church of Palm Springs
  California Court of Appeal· 1979-02-27· cited 26×
• Presbyterian Church in the United States v. Eastern Heights Presbyterian Church
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1968-01-18· cited 22×
• Jones v. Wolf
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-04-04· cited 19×
• Metropolitan Baptist Church of Richmond, Inc. v. Younger
  California Court of Appeal· 1975-06-04· cited 19×
• Md. & Va. Churches v. Sharpsburg Ch.
  Supreme Court· 1970-02-27· cited 12×
• Queen of Angels Hospital v. Younger
  California Court of Appeal· 1977-01-25· cited 12×