Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Dana Hedges, Sutton
6 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
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Anderson v. Creighton · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Turner v. Safley
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`the centrality of the religious tenet' at issue and distinguished between `religious commandments' and `positive expression of belief,' suggesting that `the importance of alternative means of religious observance is an irrelevant consideration' when the practice in question is a commandment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sutton
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.