facial challenge
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 362 U.S. 17 - United States v. James Griggs Raines · 1960Most cited · 2,478 citing opinions
limits of
the rule that one to whom application of a statute is constitutional will not be heard to attack the statute on the ground that impliedly it might also be taken as applying to other persons or other situations in which its application might be unconstitutional
How often courts cite the cases defining “facial challenge”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “facial challenge” — 2,514 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1907–1960
- ORIGINAL
Because a state statute, when enforced in a state court against a class to which the party complaining does not belong, may work a deprivation of constitutional rights, that fact does not authorize the reversal of a judgment of a state court not enforcing the statute so as to deprive the party complaining of rights which are protected by the Federal Constitution.
as-applied limit