United States v. William Steele

How courts have described this case

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

• prosecution unlawful if it is an act of discrimination against those who exercise their First Amendment rights
• prosecution unlawful if it is an act of discrimination against those who exercise their First Amendment rights
• selective enforcement of census form statute against census resisters who exercised right of free speech
• discriminatory investigation taints prosecution where normal procedures for selecting cases for prosecution have apparently been bypassed
• prosecution unlawful if it is an act of discrimination against those who exercise their First Amendment rights
• the defendant is “entitled to an acquittal if his evidence proved that the authorities purposefully discriminated against those who chose to exercise their First Amendment rights”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Wayte v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-19· cited 1,692×
• United States v. Pablo Berrios
  Second Circuit· 1974-08-08· cited 429×
• Lovill v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-12-16· cited 394×
• United States v. Jeffrey Stuart Falk
  Seventh Circuit· 1973-04-19· cited 208×
• United States v. Aguilar
  Ninth Circuit· 1989-03-30· cited 205×
• United States v. Odell Bennett
  Tenth Circuit· 1976-06-28· cited 196×
• Murgia v. Municipal Court
  California Supreme Court· 1975-09-24· cited 192×
• Briggs v. Goodwin
  D.C. Circuit· 1977-09-21· cited 153×
• United States v. Myers
  Second Circuit· 1982-09-03· cited 139×
• American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee v. Reno
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-11-08· cited 121×
• Hunt v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1994-01-12· cited 114×
• Attorney General of the United States of America v. The Irish People, Inc.
  D.C. Circuit· 1982-07-02· cited 112×
• Commonwealth v. King
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-12-12· cited 93×
• United States v. Victor Mason
  Fourth Circuit· 2014-12-18· cited 88×
• United States v. James Walter Scott
  Ninth Circuit· 1975-09-25· cited 86×
• United States v. Michael O. Myers
  Second Circuit· 1980-11-03· cited 84×
• United States v. Pedro Saade, United States of America v. Carlos Zenon Rodriguez
  First Circuit· 1981-06-30· cited 83×
• United States v. Nancy E. Wilson, United States of America v. Buddy Rex Wilson
  Ninth Circuit· 1981-02-09· cited 81×
• United States v. Rodney Bourgeois
  Ninth Circuit· 1992-05-19· cited 80×
• United States v. William R. Ojala
  Eighth Circuit· 1976-11-08· cited 79×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Yick Wo v. Hopkins
  Supreme Court· 1886-05-10· cited 3,789×
• Bolling v. Sharpe
  Supreme Court· 1954-05-17· cited 2,385×
• Oyler v. Boles
  Supreme Court· 1962-02-19· cited 1,736×
• Snowden v. Hughes
  Supreme Court· 1944-03-13· cited 1,478×
• Two Guys From Harrison-Allentown, Inc. v. McGinley
  Supreme Court· 1961-05-29· cited 236×
• People v. Utica Daw's Drug Co.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1962-02-22· cited 94×
• Junius S. Washington v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1968-04-26· cited 86×
• United States v. William F. Rickenbacker
  Second Circuit· 1963-01-14· cited 40×
• Rhinehart v. Rhay
  Ninth Circuit· 1971-03-11· cited 17×

Other cases named United States v. William Steele

2 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• United States v. William Steele
  Sixth Circuit· 2019-03-26· cited 21×
• United States v. William Steele
  Sixth Circuit· 2019-03-26