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789 F.3d 1125 · 2015

Citation profile

23
cited by 23 later decisions
1
states following
November 2024
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000C · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)

Relies on Pearson v. Callahan · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Neitzke v. Williams · Turner v. Safley · 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Rio state a claim under RLUIPA, a prisoner must show that: (1) he takes part in a 'religious exercise,' and (2) the State's actions have substantially burdened that exercise.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “a prisoner's Free Exercise Clause claim will fail if the State shows that the challenged action is 'reasonably related to legitimate penological interests.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “whether the State's interest in compliance with the Equal Protection Clause is reasonably related to legitimate penological interests.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.