present membership
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 307 U.S. 22 - Kessler v. Strecker · 1939Most cited · 371 citing opinions
deportation
it is the present membership, or present affiliation—a fact to be determined on evidence—which bars admission, bars naturalization, and requires deportation.
How often courts cite the case defining “present membership”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “present membership” — 370 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.