Burgin v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
536 F.2d 501 · 1976
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2015 · most notably Goulden v. Oliver Et Al. (1979), Owens v. Haas (1979)
24 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 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
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell · Procunier v. Martinez · Cruz v. Beto · Shelton v. Tucker
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . It may well be that the state’s interest in hygiene and identification of inmates outweighs the prisoner’s interest in growing a beard as required by his religion, but there is nothing in the record now to show that. As we pointed out in Sostre v. Preiser [ 519 F.2d 763 (2d Cir. 1975)] at 764: “But even if the institutional purpose is legitimate and substantial, ‘that purpose cannot be pursued by means that broadly stifle fundamental personal liberties when the end can be more narrowly achieved.’ . . . At the very least, a record must be made as to what the no-beard rule is; how it is applied; whether any beards are allowed; whether, as plaintiffs allege, there is no hygienic problem; and whether the need for identification requires total prohibition of beards, rather than some narrower limitation.” ( 536 F.2d at 504 .)”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the state regulation has an important objective and the restraint on religious liberty is reasonably adapted to achieving that objective.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“time-consuming shuttle between the court of appeals and the district court . . . .”
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.