Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist
← 657 F.3d 591 - Vinning-El v. Evans

Vinning-El v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis

657 F.3d 591 · 2011

Citation profile

29
cited by 29 later decisions
1
states following
July 2024
most recently cited

6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000B · 42 U.S.C. § 2000C

Relies on Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Pearson v. Callahan · Malley v. Briggs · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Turner v. Safley

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

  1. “[a] personal religious faith is entitled to as much protection as one espoused by an organized group.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “observing that the tenets of [the MSTA] require a non-pork diet,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[S]incerity rather than orthodoxy is the touchstone.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage

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.