Rader v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021
1 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000B
Relies on Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Wisconsin v. Yoder · Sherbert v. Verner · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Applying such a burden test to non-neutral government actions would make petty harassment of religious institutions and exercise immune from the protection of the First Amendment. A burden test is only necessary to place logical limits on free exercise rights in relation to laws or actions designed to achieve legitimate, secular purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he defendants ... have created a system of 'individualized government assessment' of the students' requests for exemptions, but have refused to extend exceptions to freshmen who wish to live [off campus] for religious reasons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.