Albertson v. Subversive Activities Control Board’s Empirical Analysis

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305 federal appellate · 47 district · 154 state decisions

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 768 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “inherently suspect of criminal activities.”

   28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Baltimore City Department of Social Services v. Bouknight · United States v. Whitehead

2. “absolute immunity against future prosecution for the offence to which the question relates”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Vinegra · In Re Zicarelli

3. “the form of return provided called for answers that the defendant was privileged from making he could have raised the objection in the return, but could not on that account refuse to make any return at all. * * * Most of the items warranted no complaint. It would be an extreme if not an extravagant application of the Fifth Amendment to say that it authorized a man to refuse to state the amount of his income because it had been made in crime. But if the defendant desired to test that or any other point he should have tested it in the return so that it could be passed upon. He could not draw a conjurer's circle around the whole matter by his own declaration that to write any word upon the government blank would bring him into danger of the law.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Akins · Hoffman Can Corp