Shub v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2001 · most notably U. S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton (1995), Lloyd v. Board of Supervisors of Elections (2001)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 29 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2385 · 29 U.S.C. § 141 (§ 1 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · American Communications Ass'n v. Douds · Bridges v. State of California Times-Mirror Co · United States v. Dennis · Lámar v. United States
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in one way or another in the attempt to overthrow the government by force or violence,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Section 2(a) makes it a felony to [cjommit, attempt to commit, or aid in the commission of any act intended to overthrow, destroy or alter, or to assist in the overthrow, destruction or alteration of, the constitutional form of the government of the United States or of the State of Maryland * * * by revolution, force, or violence.”
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.