Koger v. Bryan’s Empirical Analysis
523 F.3d 789 · 2008
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Nelson v. Miller (2009), Abdulhaseeb v. Calbone (2010)
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 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. § 2000B · 42 U.S.C. § 2000C
Relies on Anderson v. Creighton · Koon v. United States · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · Wisconsin v. Yoder
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n the context of RLUIPA’s broad definition of religious exercise, a ■... regulation that imposes a substantial burden on religious exercise is one that necessarily bears direct, primary and fundamental responsibility for rendering religious exercise ... effectively impracticable.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“No government shall impose ... a substantial burden on the religious exercise of a person residing in or confined to an institution ... unless the government demonstrates that imposition of the burden on that person— (1) is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest; and (2) is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“asking for accommodation of a religious exercise rooted in sincerely held beliefs.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.