Grant v. Reader's Digest Ass'n’s Empirical Analysis
151 F.2d 733 · 1945
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1993 · most notably Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath (1951), Beauharnais v. Illinois (1952)
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 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 Peck v. Tribune Co. · Moore v. . Francis · Triggs v. Sun Printing & Publishing Ass'n · Kimmerle v. New York Evening Journal, Inc. · Sydney v. MacFadden Newspaper Publishing Corp.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Being the last decision of the state courts, it is conclusive upon us, unless there is a difference between saying that a man is a Communist and saying that he is an agent for the Party or sympathizes with its objects and methods. Any difference is one of degree only: those who would take it ill of a lawyer that he was a member of the Party, might no doubt take it less so if he were only what is called a ‘fellow-traveler’; but, since the basis for the reproach ordinarily lies in some supposed threat to our institutions, those who fear that threat are not likely to believe that it is limited to party members. Indeed, it is not uncommon for them to feel less concern at avowed propaganda than at what they regard as the insidious spread of the dreaded doctrines by those who only dally and coquette with them, and have not the courage openly to proclaim themselves.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Buckley v. Littell
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.