pacifist
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 279 U.S. 644 - United States v. Schwimmer · 1929Most cited · 516 citing opinions
A pacifist, in the general sense of the word, is one who seeks to maintain peace and to abolish war. But the word is also used and understood to mean one who refuses or is unwilling for any purpose to bear arms because of conscientious considerations and who is disposed to encourage others in such refusal.
How often courts cite the case defining “pacifist”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “pacifist” — 514 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.