Church of the New Song v. Establishment of Religion on Taxpayers' Money in the Federal Bureau of Prisons’s Empirical Analysis
620 F.2d 648 · 1980
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Conner v. Reinhard (1988), Secretary of Labor v. Fitzsimmons (1986)
20 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Amperex Electronic Corp. v. New York Racing Assn., Inc. · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc. · Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co. v. Adkins · Sea-Land Services, Inc. v. Gaudet
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is privity between officers of the same government so that a suit between a party and a representative of the United States is res judicata in relitigation of the same issues between that party and another officer of the government.”
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.