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Subversive person

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 377 U.S. 360 - Baggett v. Bullitt · 1964Most cited · 2,474 citing opinions

any person who commits, attempts to commit, or aids in the commission, or advocates, abets, advises or teaches by any means any person to commit, attempt to commit, or aid in the commission of any act intended to overthrow, destroy or alter, or to assist in the overthrow, destruction or alteration of, the constitutional form of the government of the United States, or of the state of Washington, or any political subdivision of either of them by revolution

How often courts cite the case defining “Subversive person”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Subversive person” — 2,458 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.