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907 F.2d 46 · 1990

Citation profile

48
cited by 48 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
January 2017
most recently cited

22 federal appellate · 2 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2017 · most notably Cutter et al. v. Wilkinson Director Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (2005), Shakur v. Schriro (2008)

22 federal appellate · 2 district ·

280199020002010decided

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

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Employment Division Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. L Smith · O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz · Poe v. Haydon · McElyea v. Babbitt

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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a prisoner is entitled to practice his religion insofar as doing so does not unduly burden the administration of the prison.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “reasonably related to legitimate penological objectives.”
    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.