Communist organization
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 378 U.S. 500 - Aptheker v. Secretary of State · 1964Most cited · 1,383 citing opinions
any Communist-action organization, Communist-front organization, or Communist-infiltrated organization.
How often courts cite the case defining “Communist organization”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Communist organization” — 1,379 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.