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overbreadth doctrine

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 407 U.S. 163 - Moose Lodge No. 107 v. Irvis · 1972Most cited · 2,485 citing opinions

standing

the doctrine of 'overbreadth' has been held by this Court in prior decisions to accord standing by reason of the 'chilling effect' that a particular law might have upon the exercise of the First Amendment rights, that doctrine has not been applied to constitutional litigation in areas other than those relating to the First Amendment

How often courts cite the case defining “overbreadth doctrine”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “overbreadth doctrine” — 2,468 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.