Meese III v. Keene’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
299 federal appellate · 82 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 628 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Spencer v. Kemna (1998), Lee v. Weisman (1992)
299 federal appellate · 82 district · 14 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
Applies 22 U.S.C. § 611 (Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938) · 22 U.S.C. § 612 · 22 U.S.C. § 614 · 26 U.S.C. § 501 · 28 U.S.C. § 1252 · 5 U.S.C. § 4107
Relies on Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Allen v. Wright · Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 628 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]llegations of a subjective 'chill' are not an adequate substitute for a claim of specific present objective harm or a threat of specific future harm.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“his personal, political, and professional reputation would suffer and his ability to obtain re-election and to practice his professional could be impaired.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Glass v. Paxton · Pulphus v. Ayers“It is axiomatic that the statutory definition of the term excludes unstated meanings of that term”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.