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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 205 U.S. 34 - Nicholas Halter v. State of Nebraska · 1907Most cited · 231 citing opinions
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To every true American the flag is the symbol of the nation's power,—the emblem of freedom in its truest, best sense. It is not extravagant to say that to all lovers of the country it signifies government resting on the consent of the governed; liberty regulated by law; the protection of the weak against the strong; security against the exercise of arbitrary power; and absolute safety for free institutions against foreign aggression.
How often courts cite the case defining “flag”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “flag” — 231 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.