Evans v. Seaman’s Empirical Analysis
452 F.2d 749 · 1971
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2006
12 federal appellate ·
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. § 2000A (Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States · Daniel v. Paul · Miller v. Amusement Enterprises, Inc.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) All 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 segragation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin. (b) Each of the following establishments which serves the public is a place of public accommodation within the meaning of this title if its operations affect commerce . '. (3) any motion picture house, theater, concert hall, sports arena, stadium or other place of exhibition or entertainment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The . . . question ... is whether the operations of Seaman’s roller rink “affect commerce” within the meaning of 2000a(c) (3). We conclude that they do. The rink is not entertaining by itself. Rather its source of entertainment is the use of roller skates upon its surface. Those roller skates and the replacement parts for them were purchased from an [out of state] company. The skates, therefore, constitute the “sources of entertainment [which] move in commerce.””
1 later decision 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.