Keene v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 17 U.S.C. § 401 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 22 U.S.C. § 611 (Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938) · 22 U.S.C. § 612 · 22 U.S.C. § 614 · 22 U.S.C. § 620 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 510
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Buckley v. Valeo · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Elrod v. Burns · Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ny oral, visual, graphic, written, pictorial, or other communication or expression by any person (1) which is reasonably adapted to, or which the person disseminating the same believes will, or which he intends to, prevail upon, indoctrinate, convert, induce, or in any other way influence a recipient or any section of the public within the United States with reference to the political or public interests, policies, or relations of a government of a foreign country or a foreign political party, or with reference to the foreign policies of the United States or promote in the United States racial, religious, or social dissensions____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the defendants, their agents, servants, employees and attorneys, and all who act in concert with them be, and the same hereby are, permanently enjoined from enforcing the Foreign Agents Registration Act, 22 U.S.C. §§ 611 (j) and 614(a), (b), and (c), respectively, as against the films If You Love This Planet, Rain: Requiem or Recovery, and Acid From Heaven.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if he were to exhibit the films while they bore such characterization, his personal, political, and professional reputation would suffer and his ability to obtain re-election and to practice his profession would be impaired.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meese III v. Keene
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.