Sparks v. Ware’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[D]espite the fact that defendant is incarcerated for violation of the criminal law, he retains his first amendment rights to the extent that they are not "inconsistent with his status as a prisoner or with the legitimate penological objectives of the corrections system." * * * Even prisoners must be afforded reasonable opportunity to exercise their religious freedom. * * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 694 So. 2d 1050 - Bartley v. Mamoulides

2. “The first amendment does not allow this relatively minor inconvenience for the prison record keeping system to stand in the way of an inmate's right to express his religion by taking his religious name as his legal name.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 694 So. 2d 1050 - Bartley v. Mamoulides

3. “The record reveals no reason to believe that appellant's request for a name change is not sincerely motivated by religious convictions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 694 So. 2d 1050 - Bartley v. Mamoulides