Sample v. Borg’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2017
3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
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. § 1996 (American Indian Religious Freedom Act)
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Turner v. Safley · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Three themes are central to Native American religious life: purification, offering, and vision. The ceremonial manifestations of these three aspects of Native American religious life are of such a character that the deprivation of one (for whatever reason) makes more critical, from a spiritual standpoint, the need to participate in another. Thus, for Native Americans who are unable to participate in a sweat lodge ceremony (a purification ritual) ... participation in a pipe ceremony (an offering rite) becomes more important.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hyde v. Fisher
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.