373 F. Supp. 2d 822 - Rowe v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915A · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E · 42 U.S.C. § 2000C · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Cutter et al. v. Wilkinson Director Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction · Peso Chavez v. The Illinois State Police · Civil Liberties for Urban Believers v. City of Chicago · Kashani v. Purdue University
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]earing a Celtic Cross necklace is a religious exercise” and "[d]enying [the inmate] a Celtic Cross necklace was directly, primarily, and fundamentally responsible for rendering that religious exercise effectively impracticable.” Rowe v. Davis, 373 F.Supp.2d 822, 827 (N.D.Ind.2005). RLUIPA itself appears to leave open the possibility of that interpretation by defining “religious exercise”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]earing a Celtic Cross necklace is a religious exercise” and”
1 later decision 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.