Williams v. Annucci’s Empirical Analysis
895 F.3d 180 · 2018
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2106 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000C
Relies on Farmer v. Brennan · Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah · United States v. Jacobson · Triestman v. Federal Bureau of Prisons · Salahuddin v. Goord
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“application of the burden . . . (1) is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest; and (2) is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sabir v. Williams“[U]nexplained disparate treatment of 'analogous nonreligious conduct' leads us to suspect that a narrower policy that burdens [the plaintiffs] to a lesser degree is in fact possible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sabir v. Williams“Such unexplained disparate treatment of 'analogous nonreligious conduct' leads us to question whether the [government's] interest . . . is as compelling as it suggests . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sabir v. Williams
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.