Puri v. Khalsa’s Empirical Analysis
844 F.3d 1152 · 2017
Citation profile
2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2024
2 district · 2 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
Relies on Jones v. Bock · Serbian Eastern Orthodox Diocese for United States and Canada v. Milivojevich · Presbyterian Church in US v. Mary Elizabeth Blue Hull Memorial Presbyterian Church · Watson v. Jones · Jones v. Wolf
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.
“[A]n employee is more likely to be a minister if a religious organization holds the employee out as a minister by bestowing a formal religious title.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“grounded in the First Amendment[ ] that precludes application of [employment-discrimination] legislation to claims concerning the employment relationship between a religious institution and its ministers.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Supreme Court has long recognized religious organizations' broad right to control the selection of their own religious leaders.”
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.