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Haight v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis

763 F.3d 554 · 2014

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
2
states following
June 2026
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 666 · 20 U.S.C. § 1415 · 28 U.S.C. § 1365 · 28 U.S.C. § 1443 · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E · 42 U.S.C. § 2000B · 42 U.S.C. § 2000C

Relies on Employment Division Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. L Smith · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · City of Boerne v. Flores · Gregory v. Ashcroft · United States v. Seeger

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

  1. “may not use a manual written by government officials to allow other government officials to decide on that basis alone that a practice is not central to this or that faith”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “place[s] substantial pressure on an adherent to modify his behavior and to violate his beliefs ... or effectively bar[s] his sincere faith-based conduct.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “€œConstitution prohibit[s], and judges lack[] the capacity to undertake, assessments of the centrality of faith-based practices to this or that 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.