Daniel v. Paul’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
119 federal appellate · 26 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 348 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably United States v. Lopez (1995), Roberts v. United States Jaycees (1984)
119 federal appellate · 26 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 12 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
reviewedDaniel v. Paul (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States · United States v. Guest · Katzenbach v. McClung · Rodriquez v. United States · Bell v. State of Maryland
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 348 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to remove the daily affront and humiliation involved in discriminatory denials of access to facilities ostensibly open to the general public.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ll persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“sources of entertainment which move in commerce”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.