Pennsylvania v. Nelson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• striking down a consistent state sedition law that would hamper federal enforcement at a time when the federal government had chosen to occupy the field
• Congressional enactment of internal security laws to safeguard against overthrow of the government by force reflected overriding federal interest requiring preemption of supplementary state anticommunist legislation

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Cited by

232 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Roth v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-06-24· cited 3,255×
• Speiser v. Randall
  Supreme Court· 1958-06-30· cited 1,658×
• Arizona v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2012-06-25· cited 1,166×
• Bartkus v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1959-06-08· cited 1,084×
• Stanford v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-01· cited 948×
• Sweezy v. New Hampshire Ex Rel. Wyman
  Supreme Court· 1957-06-17· cited 781×
• White Mountain Apache Tribe v. Bracker
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-27· cited 778×
• De Canas v. Bica
  Supreme Court· 1976-02-25· cited 608×
• Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Center, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 2015-03-31· cited 544×
• Swift & Co. v. Wickham
  Supreme Court· 1965-11-22· cited 469×
• Raley v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1959-06-22· cited 376×
• International Ass'n of MacHinists v. Gonzales
  Supreme Court· 1958-06-30· cited 318×
• Rice v. Rehner
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-01· cited 224×
• City of Chicago v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.
  Supreme Court· 1958-06-16· cited 215×
• United States v. Brosnan
  Supreme Court· 1960-06-13· cited 207×
• Benanti v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-12-09· cited 184×
• United Nuclear Corp. v. General Atomic Co.
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1980-08-29· cited 166×
• Uphaus v. Wyman
  Supreme Court· 1959-10-12· cited 164×
• Pennzoil Company v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-08-21· cited 161×
• Commonwealth v. Vitello
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-04-01· cited 142×

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hines v. Davidowitz
  Supreme Court· 1941-01-20· cited 2,711×
• Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1947-05-05· cited 2,636×
• Cohens v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1821-03-18· cited 2,076×
• Winters v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1948-05-03· cited 1,240×
• Dennis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1951-06-04· cited 1,230×
• Gitlow v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1925-06-08· cited 1,060×
• Whitney v. California
  Supreme Court· 1927-05-16· cited 1,054×
• Garner v. Teamsters, Chauffeurs & Helpers Local Union No. 776
  Supreme Court· 1954-01-04· cited 920×
• United States v. Lanza
  Supreme Court· 1922-12-11· cited 529×
• Allen-Bradley Local No. 1111 v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Board
  Supreme Court· 1942-03-30· cited 413×
• Houston v. Moore
  Supreme Court· 1820-02-16· cited 318×
• Jerome v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1943-02-01· cited 307×
• Reid v. Colorado
  Supreme Court· 1902-10-01· cited 260×
• Cloverleaf Butter Co. v. Patterson, Commissioner of Agriculture & Industries
  Supreme Court· 1942-02-02· cited 181×
• Charleston & Western Carolina Railway Co. v. Varnville Furniture Co.
  Supreme Court· 1915-06-01· cited 177×
• Gilbert v. Minnesota
  Supreme Court· 1920-12-13· cited 109×
• Commonwealth v. Nelson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1954-01-25· cited 40×
• Sexton v. California
  Supreme Court· 1903-04-06· cited 32×
• United States v. Stephen Mesarosh, Also Known as Steve Nelson, William Albertson, Benjamin Lowell Careathers, James Hulse Dolsen and Irving Weissman
  Third Circuit· 1955-08-11· cited 29×
• Albertson v. Millard
  E.D. Michigan· 1952-07-30· cited 17×

Other cases named Pennsylvania v. Nelson

6 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Pennsylvania v. Nelson
  Supreme Court· 1987-11-02· cited 4×
• Pennsylvania v. Nelson
  Supreme Court· 1987-11-02· cited 4×
• Pennsylvania v. Nelson
  Supreme Court· 1954-10-14· cited 2×
• Pennsylvania v. Nelson
  Supreme Court· 1955-02-28
• Pennsylvania v. Nelson
  Supreme Court· 1955-11-07
• Pennsylvania v. Nelson
  Supreme Court· 1956-05-14