membership
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 355 U.S. 115 - Rowoldt v. Perfetto · 1957Most cited · 210 citing opinions
There must be a substantial basis for finding that an alien committed himself to the Communist Party in consciousness that he was 'joining an organization known as the Communist Party which operates as a distinct and active political organization.
How often courts cite the case defining “membership”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “membership” — 210 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.