Irvis v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions

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

1. ““Nothing in what we here say implies a judgment on private clubs which limit participation to those of a shared religious affiliation or a mutual heritage in national origin. Such oases are not the same as the present one where discrimination is practiced solely on racial grounds and therefore collides head on against the ‘clear and central purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment * * * to eliminate all official state sources of invidious racial discrimination in the States.’ ’’ (Emphasis ours.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 333 F. Supp. 662 - Pitts v. Department of Revenue for State of Wisconsin

2. “(a)s in Burton the state has 'insinuated itself into a position of interdependence' with its club licensees . . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Braden v. University of Pittsburgh

3. “(i)t would be difficult to find a more pervasive interaction of state authority with personal conduct.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Braden v. University of Pittsburgh