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captive audience

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 403 U.S. 15 - Cohen v. California · 1971Most cited · 3,080 citing opinions

privacy limit on speech restriction

The ability of government, consonant with the Constitution, to shut off discourse solely to protect others from hearing it is, in other words, dependent upon a showing that substantial privacy interests are being invaded in an essentially intolerable manner.

How often courts cite the case defining “captive audience”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “captive audience” — 3,053 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.