Washington v. Afify

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that the plaintiff stated a valid claim of retaliation where “[the] defendants took specific, concrete actions against plaintiff in retaliation for his exercise of his First Amendment rights.”
• dismissing plaintiffs equal protection claim because his allegations were more properly addressed in the context of his retaliation claims
• dismissing First Amendment claim based on denial of three meals during Ramadan as “a de minimis burden on plaintiff's exercise of his religion”
• dismissing Free Exercise claims because the “allegations here show at most a de minimis burden on plaintiff’s exercise of his religion” (italics omitted)
• few isolated deprivations of religiously-mandated food do not give rise to First Amendment claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Richard v. Fischer
  W.D. New York· 2014-08-07· cited 30×
• Barnes v. County of Monroe
  W.D. New York· 2015-02-10· cited 27×
• Brooks v. Prack
  W.D. New York· 2014-12-31· cited 15×
• DeJesus v. Bradt
  W.D. New York· 2016-03-31· cited 7×
• Johnson v. Annucci
  W.D. New York· 2018-05-21· cited 4×
• Crenshaw v. Dondrea
  W.D. New York· 2017-10-03· cited 3×
• Engles v. Jones
  W.D. New York· 2015-11-16· cited 1×

Cites

52 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N. A.
  Supreme Court· 2002-02-26· cited 8,748×
• Turner v. Safley
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-01· cited 6,491×
• O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-09· cited 2,176×
• Salahuddin v. Goord
  Second Circuit· 2006-10-27· cited 1,403×
• Gallagher v. Shelton
  Tenth Circuit· 2009-11-24· cited 900×
• Murray v. Bledsoe
  Third Circuit· 2011-06-10· cited 733×
• Leroy A. Lovelace v. Jack Lee Gene Shinault K. Lester
  Fourth Circuit· 2006-12-29· cited 435×
• Anthony G. Gill v. Chris Pidlypchak, Correction Officer T.G. Dygert, Correction Officer
  Second Circuit· 2004-11-19· cited 371×
• Dawes v. Walker
  Second Circuit· 2001-02-08· cited 358×
• Clubside, Inc. v. Valentin
  Second Circuit· 2006-10-25· cited 344×
• Ricky J. Rapier v. Sheriff William Harris, Jail Commander Jon Marvel, Correctional Officer Ray Higginbotham
  Seventh Circuit· 1999-04-19· cited 308×
• Sharp v. Johnson
  Third Circuit· 2012-02-09· cited 300×
• Francisco Franco v. Walter Kelly, Lt. Moscicki and Officer Higley
  Second Circuit· 1988-07-25· cited 299×
• Wayne Ford v. John McGinnis Superintendent, Patrick McGann Deputy Superintendent of Administration, Gordon Lord, Assistant Deputy Superintendent
  Second Circuit· 2003-12-15· cited 289×
• Julio Giano v. Daniel Senkowski, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility Thomas Coughlin, Commissioner, Department of Correctional Services
  Second Circuit· 1995-05-16· cited 273×
• Kenneth Gaston v. Thomas A. Coughlin, III Donald Selsky Lt. Grant Lebaron, Lt. Hans Walker Frank Irvin Edward Dann John Doe, Confidential Informant
  Second Circuit· 2001-05-07· cited 263×
• Laura Phelan v. Cook County
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-09-18· cited 225×
• Patrick v. LeFevre
  Second Circuit· 1984-09-19· cited 203×
• Aziz Zarif Shabazz v. Pico
  S.D. New York· 1998-02-11· cited 148×
• Francis v. Coughlin
  Second Circuit· 1989-12-04· cited 141×