Dairy Queen, Inc. v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
1,046 federal appellate · 285 district · 317 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,949 later decisions (43 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore (1979), Granfinanciera, S.A. v. Nordberg (1989)
1,046 federal appellate · 285 district · 317 state decisions — followed in 34 states
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
reviewedFine Fashions, Inc. v. Gross (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · La Buy v. Howes Leather Co. · Scott v. Neely · Arnstein v. Porter
Cited together with Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · Ross v. Bernhard · Curtis v. Loether · Tull v. United States · Granfinanciera, S.A. v. Nordberg
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 2,949 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“insofar as the complaint requests a money judgment it presents a claim which is unquestionably legal”
59 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the responsibility of the Federal Courts of Appeals to grant mandamus where necessary to protect the constitutional right to trial by jury.”
57 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It would make no difference if the equitable cause clearly outweighed the legal cause so that the basic issue of the case taken as a whole is equitable. As long as any legal cause is involved the jury rights it creates control.” 294 F.2d at 491 .”
10 later decisions 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.