Rasul v. Myers’s Empirical Analysis
563 F.3d 527 · 2009
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 17 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably 134 S. Ct. 2751 - Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (2014), Mader v. United States (2011)
21 federal appellate · 17 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 10 U.S.C. § 801 (Military Justice Act of 1968) · 28 U.S.C. § 1350 (Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991) · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2679 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000B · 42 U.S.C. § 2000D · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Anderson v. Creighton · Pearson v. Callahan · Scott v. Harris
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no doubt that RLUIPA's drafters, in changing the definition of 'exercise of religion,' wanted to broaden the scope of the kinds of practices protected by RFRA, not increase the universe of individuals protected by RFRA.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“see nothing in the Supreme Court's [Boumediene ] decision that could possibly affect our disposition of” the plaintiffs' ATS claims alleging violations of the law of nations and”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the exercise of religion under the First Amendment”
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.