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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 34 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division.

#Case FlagCanonical passage Citers
1 Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division Anchor
scotus · 1981
green “religious beliefs need not be acceptable, logical, consistent, or comprehensible to others in order to merit first amendment protection.” 26
2 Callahan v. Woods
ca9 · 1981
green “a coincidence of religious and secular claims in no way extinguishes the weight appropriately accorded the religious one.” 8

A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment: for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.

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