538 F. Supp. 1119 - Blitz v. Donovan’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 district ·
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 801 · 29 U.S.C. § 811 · 5 U.S.C. § 553 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Perry v. Sindermann · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Weinberger v. Salfi · McKart 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“who publicly advocate[d] the violent overthrow of the Federal Government or who [had], within the past five years, publicly advocated the violent overthrow of the Federal Government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blitz v. Donovan“I do not believe it was the intention of Congress that individuals whose stated policy is the overthrow of our system be the beneficiary [sic] of that system.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Blitz v. Donovan“Do you now, or have you within the past five years, publicly advocated the violent overthrow of the Federal Government?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blitz v. Donovan
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.