Dettmer v. Landon’s Empirical Analysis
799 F.2d 929 · 1986
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Kay v. Bemis (2007), Gary David Morrison, Jr. v. David A. Garraghty (2001)
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Cruz v. Beto · Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division · United States v. Seeger · Africa v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is not within the judicial function and judicial competence to inquire whether the petitioner or [another practitioner] more correctly perceive[s] the commands of their common faith,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“occupies a place in the lives of its members `parallel to that filled by the orthodox belief in God' in religions more widely accepted in the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[R]eligious beliefs need not be acceptable, logical, consistent, or comprehensible to others in order to merit First Amendment protection.”
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.