Fegans v. Norris’s Empirical Analysis
537 F.3d 897 · 2008
Citation profile
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 ·
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.
“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“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.