Rust v. Clarke’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000B
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz · Lappe v. Loeffelholz
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Moreover, all of the defense affidavits appear to have been drafted without the Act's substantive provisions in mind, particularly ignoring the factual question of whether the Defendants have employed `the least restrictive means of furthering th[e] compelling governmental interest.'”
1 later decision 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.