Schneider v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
70 federal appellate · 18 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 179 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2017 · most notably New York v. Ferber (1982), Boos v. Barry (1988)
70 federal appellate · 18 district · 25 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 United States v. Harriss · Shelton v. Tucker · Baggett v. Bullitt · United States v. National Dairy Products Corp. · Zemel v. Rusk
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 179 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction .... (I)t is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that it could not be assumed that Congress intended to authorize a screening program directed at `membership' or `sympathetic association' in particular organizations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McBride v. Smith“(c) Performing, or attempting to perform, duties or otherwise acting so as to serve the interests of another government to the detriment of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.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.