content-based restriction
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 408 U.S. 92 - Police Department of Chicago v. Mosley · 1972Most cited · 3,501 citing opinions
above all else, the First Amendment means that government has no power to restrict expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content.
How often courts cite the case defining “content-based restriction”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “content-based restriction” — 3,469 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.