Reed v. Faulkner’s Empirical Analysis
842 F.2d 960 · 1988
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Giano v. Senkowski (1995), Williams v. Lane (1988)
40 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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
Relies on Turner v. Safley · Goldman v. Weinberger · Azeez v. Fairman · Teterud v. Burns · Garza v. Miller
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that blacks are superior to whites, and apparently it was this testimony that became transmogrified in the district, courts opinion into”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he fact that a person does not adhere steadfastly to every tenet of his faith does not mark him as insincere. Some religions place unrealistic demands on their adherents; others cater especially to the weak of will. It would be bizarre for prisons to undertake in effect to promote strict orthodoxy, by forfeiting the religious rights of any inmate observed backsliding, thus placing guards and fellow inmates in the role of religious police.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an inmate may adopt a religion merely to harass the prison staff with demands to accommodate his new faith,”
2 later decisions 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.