Teterud v. Gillman’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1992
2 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Wisconsin v. Yoder · Procunier v. Martinez · Sherbert v. Verner · United States v. Seeger
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[H]air length is a tenet of the Indian religion. An Indian’s hair length can have sufficient religious significance to make a forced cutting of that hair an encroachment on the Indian’s First Amendment rights. An Indian, however, may wish to wear his hair in the traditional style for a variety of reasons. The court will not speculate as to why an Indian wears his hair one way or the other. It suffices to say that if an individual Indian’s belief in the Indian religion is honest, made in good faith, and sincere, he should be allowed to wear his hair in the traditional style.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.