The trend in labor conspiracy doctrine after the mid-1830s, we have seen, was away from singling out journeymen's combinations as in the tmselves exceptional threats to the public interest, and very much toward homogenizing them with other sorts of concerted activity whose alleged deleterious impact was to be tested through an inspection of the means employed in furtherance of the desired goal for evidence of injury or prejudice to the self-interest of others. The most extensive restatement of conspiracy doctrine to this effect came from the pen of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw in the Massachusetts case of Commonwealth v. Hunt, argued before the Supreme Judicial Court of that state in 1841 and decided the following year.