Weir v. Nix’s Empirical Analysis
114 F.3d 817 · 1997
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably McEachin v. McGuinnis (2004), Murphy v. Missouri Department of Corrections (2004)
19 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000B
Relies on Rhodes v. Chapman · Employment Division Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. L Smith · Cruz v. Beto · Oklahoma v. New Mexico · Licht v. Texas Commerce Bank
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must “significantly inhibit or constrain conduct or expression that manifests some central tenet of a [person’s] individual [religious] beliefs; must meaningfully curtail a [person’s] ability to express adherence to his or her faith; or must deny a [person] reasonable opportunities to engage in those activities that are fundamental to a [person’s] religion.””
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] person claiming that a governmental policy or action violates his right to exercise his religion freely must establish that the action substantially burdens his sincerely held religious belief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Constitution does not require that a religious advisor be provided for every sect represented in a penitentiary.”
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.