Louisiana Gremillion v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 15 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 273 later decisions (71 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2026 · most notably Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), Pointer v. Texas (1965)
68 federal appellate · 15 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 28 U.S.C. § 1253 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 29 U.S.C. § 101 (Norris-LaGuardia Act)
Relies on Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · Shelton v. Tucker · Schneider v. State · Lovell v. City of Griffin
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 273 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]reedom of association for the purpose of advancing ideas and airing grievances is protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment from invasion by the States ... not only against heavy-handed frontal attack, but also from being stifled by more subtle governmental interference.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"It is not consonant with due process to require a person to swear to a fact that he cannot be expected to know (cf. Tot v. United States, 319 U.S. 463 , 63 S.Ct. 1241 , 87 L.Ed. 1519 ) or alternatively to refrain from a wholly lawful activity."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]ven though the governmental purpose be legitimate and substantial, that purpose cannot be pursued by means that broadly stifle fundamental personal liberties when the end can be more narrowly achieved.”
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.