High-profile cases in the Supreme Court of the United States (‘SCOTUS’) on religion tend to attract a certain amount of academic comment in the United Kingdom but US judgments are cited only infrequently by the superior courts in the UK. In return, SCOTUS rarely cites foreign judgments at all. The reason, it is suggested, is that the effect given by the First Amendment to the US Constitution is to render US case law of less relevance to the UK than, for example, judgments from jurisdictions such as Canada and Australia.

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美国最高法院的“宗教”案件与英国的相关性如何？

美国最高法院 (“SCOTUS”) 中备受瞩目的宗教案件往往会在英国引起一定程度的学术评论，但英国高等法院很少引用美国的判决。作为回报，SCOTUS 很少引用外国判决。有人认为，原因是美国宪法第一修正案的效果是使美国判例法与英国的相关性低于加拿大和澳大利亚等司法管辖区的判决。