Levitan v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
281 F.3d 1313 · 2002
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Salahuddin v. Goord (2006), McEachin v. McGuinnis (2004)
19 federal appellate · 9 district ·
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 Bell v. Wolfish · Turner v. Safley · Employment Division Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. L Smith · Pell v. Procunier · Cruz v. Beto
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.
“[a] requirement that a religious practice be mandatory to warrant First Amendment protection finds no warrant in the cases of the Supreme Court or of this court,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he challenged rule ... burden[s] a central tenet or important practice of the litigant's religion,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“would find themselves outside the scope of First Amendment protection altogether,”
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.