Aaron v. . Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably Tyson & Brother v. Banton (1927), Tyson Bro-United Theatre Ticket Offices v. Banton
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 38 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedAaron v. Ward
Relationships
Relies on Munn v. Illinois · De Wolf v. . Ford · People v. . King · Hamilton v. . Third Avenue Railroad Co. · Gillespie v. . Brooklyn Heights R.R. Co.
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the plaintiff might have been denied admission altogether to the defendant's bathhouse, ... the defendant having voluntarily entered into a contract with her admitting her to the premises and agreeing to afford facilities for bathing, her status became similar to that of a passenger of a common carrier or a guest of an innkeeper,” so that she, too, was entitled to recover emotional damages for”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“distinction between common carriers and innkeepers, who are obliged to serve all persons who seek accommodation from them, and the keepers of public places of amusement or resort, such as the bathhouse of the defendant, theaters, and the like .... [which] may discriminate and serve whom [they] pleasef],” but holding that the latter class of businesses”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.