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Holt v. Hobbs’s Empirical Analysis

574 U.S. 352 · 2015

Citation profile

65
cited by 65 later decisions
6
cited 6 times by the Supreme Court
4
states following
June 2026
most recently cited

2 district · 8 state decisions

Appellate journey

reviewedthe decision below (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000B · 42 U.S.C. § 2000C

Relies on Turner v. Safley · Wisconsin v. Yoder · Procunier v. Martinez · Sherbert v. Verner · Employment Division Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. L Smith

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.

  1. “mirrors RFRA and . . . thus allows prisoners to seek religious accommodations pursuant to the same standard as set forth in RFRA.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Because the [group prayer] policy puts [the plaintiffs] to this choice, it substantially burdens [their] religious exercise.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “the availability of alternative means of practicing religion”
    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.