Cutter’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023
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 Turner v. Safley · Employment Division Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. L Smith · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · City of Boerne v. Flores · O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he statute does not overturn the Court’s constitutional interpretation in Smith . Rather, RLUIPA provides additional protection for religious worship, respecting that Smith set only a constitutional floor-not a ceiling-for the protection of personal liberty. Smith explicitly left heightened legislative protection for religious worship to the political branches.”
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.