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537 F.3d 897 · 2008

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
June 2021
most recently cited

12 federal appellate · 4 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Kuperman v. Wrenn (2011), Yellowbear v. Lampert (2014)

12 federal appellate · 4 district ·

210200820102020decided

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. § 2000C

Relies on Turner v. Safley · Pell v. Procunier · City of Boerne v. Flores · O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz · Cutter et al. v. Wilkinson Director Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction

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

  1. “No government shall impose a substantial burden on the religious exercise of a person residing in or confined to an institution, as defined in section 1997 of this title, even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability, 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
  2. “We conclude that an award of $ 1.44 for each constitutional violation is a sufficient nominal damage award....”
    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.