Sossamon v. Texas’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
89 federal appellate · 20 district · 38 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedSossamon v. Lone Star (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 1715Z · 15 U.S.C. § 6309 · 15 U.S.C. § 797 · 16 U.S.C. § 973I · 2 U.S.C. § 437G (§ 309 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000C · 42 U.S.C. § 2000D · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Edelman v. Jordan · Bell v. Hood · Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida · Meachum v. Fano
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 333 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person may assert a violation of [RLUIPA] as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding and obtain appropriate relief against a government.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Section 3 of RLUIPA provides that '[n]o government shall impose a substantial burden on the religious exercise' of an institutionalized person unless, as in RFRA , the government demonstrates that the burden 'is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest' and 'is the least restrictive means of furthering' that interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“whether the States, by accepting federal funds, consent to waive their sovereign immunity to suits for money damages under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.