McBride v. Roland’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 50 U.S.C. § 191 (§ 1 of the Espionage Act of 1917) · 5 U.S.C. § 1009
Relies on Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath · Baggett v. Bullitt · Shaughnessy v. United States Ex Rel. Mezei · Aptheker v. Secretary of State · V Subversive Activities Control Board
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“satisfied that the character and habits of life of the applicant are such as to warrant the belief that his presence on board vessels of the United States would not be inimical to the security of the United States,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McBride v. Smith
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.