Lawson v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
October 1996
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Turner v. Safley · Flast v. Cohen · Wisconsin v. Yoder · Procunier v. Martinez
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[g]overnment may substantially burden a person's exercise of religion only if it demonstrates that application of the burden to the person 1) is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest; and 2) is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest.”
3 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.