Welsh v. Boy Scouts of America’s Empirical Analysis
993 F.2d 1267 · 1993
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 10 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000), Ford v. Schering-Plough Corp. (1998)
34 federal appellate · 10 district · 11 state decisions
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
Relies on Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Richards v. United States · Roberts v. United States Jaycees · Wickard v. Filburn
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e must refuse[ ] to infringe on the legislative prerogative of enacting statutes to implement public policy.... The problems of public policy ... are for the legislature....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(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 segregation 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 subchapter if its operations affect commerce, or if discrimination or segregation is supported by State action: (1)any inn, hotel, motel, or other establishment which provides lodging to transient guests, other than an establishment located within a building which contains not more than five rooms for rent or hire and which is actually occupied by the proprietor of such establishment as his residence; (2) any 'restaurant, cafeteria, lunchroom, lunch counter, soda fountain, or other facility principally engaged in selling food for consumption on the premises, including, but not limited to, any such facility located on the premises of any retail establishment; or any gasoline station; (3) any motion picture house, theater, concert hall, sports arena, stadium or other place of exhibition or entertainment; (4) any establishment (A)(i) which is physically located within the premises of any estab lishment otherwise covered by this subsection, or (ii) within the premises of which is physically located any such covered establishment, and (B) which holds its”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“`places do not discriminate; people who own and operate places do.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.