286 F.3d 1179’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 13 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably United States v. Hardman (2002), Wirsching v. Colorado (2004)
10 federal appellate · 13 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 · Procunier v. Martinez · Pell v. Procunier · City of Boerne v. Flores
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether a rational connection exists between the prison policy regulation and a legitimate governmental interest advanced as its justification; (2) whether alternative means of exercising the right are available notwithstanding the policy or regulation; (3) what effect accommodating the exercise of the right would have on guards, other prisoners, and prison resources generally; and (4) whether ready, easy-to-implement alternatives exist that would accommodate the prisoner’s rights.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“requires courts, on a case-by-case basis, to look closely at the facts of a particular case and the specific regulations and interests of the prison system in determining whether prisoner's constitutional rights may be curtailed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is one thing to curtail various ways of expressing belief, for which alternative ways of expressing belief may be found [; i]t is another thing to require a believer to defile himself ... by doing something that is completely forbidden by the believer's religion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hammons v. Saffle
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.