Criticisms, however, have been leveled at this theory on the basis that there are no historical documents that mention about specific numbers pertaining to a temple quota and that there are descriptions in histories that read a temple was newly designated as jogakuji in more recent years (if there was a quota, temples cannot be newly designated as jogakuji after reaching the quota).
→これに対して、具体的な定数となる寺院の数に関する記事が全く見当たらず、時代を下っても定額寺に列せられる寺院の記事が見られる（定数があれば、定数を満たせばそれ以上は増やせない筈である）という反論がある。