Scythes v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
307 F.2d 905 · 1962
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2018
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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 Yates v. United States · Schneiderman v. United States · Galvan v. Press · Scales v. United States · Noto 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“advocates or teaches . . . the overthrow by force, violence, or other unconstitutional means of the Government of the United States”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no substantial evidence in the record that the Socialist Workers Party advocates or teaches by its `Declaration of Principles and Constitution' the violent or forceful overthrow of the government of the United States within the meaning of the test laid down by Scales and Noto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. Martin
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.