Moose Lodge No. 107 v. Irvis’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
867 federal appellate · 237 district · 351 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,485 later decisions (106 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Roe v. Wade (1973), Allen v. Wright (1984)
867 federal appellate · 237 district · 351 state decisions — followed in 36 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.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000A (Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Flast v. Cohen · Sierra Club v. Morton · Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority
Cited together with Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority · Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co. · Shelley v. Kraemer · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Evans v. Newton
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 2,485 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Only by sifting facts and weighing circumstances can the nonobvious involvement of the State in private conduct be attributed its true significance.”
40 later decisions quote this exact passage“significantly involved itself with invidious discriminations,”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“However detailed this type of regulation may be in some particulars, it cannot be said to in any way foster or encourage racial discrimination. Nor can it be said to make the State in any realistic sense a partner or even a joint venturer in the club’s enterprise.”
22 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.