Stefanow v. McFadden’s Empirical Analysis
103 F.3d 1466 · 1996
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Johnson v. California (2005), Navajo Nation v. United States Forest Service (2008)
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000B
Relies on Hudson v. Palmer · Turner v. Safley · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Pell v. Procunier · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Anyone familiar with prisons understands the seriousness of the problems caused by prison gangs that are fueled by actively virulent racism and religious bigotry”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“from engaging in conduct or having a religious experience which the faith mandates”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is reasonably related to legitimate penological interests.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.