picketing
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 391 U.S. 308 - Amalgamated Food Employees Union Local 590 v. Logan Valley Plaza, Inc. · 1968Most cited · 1,103 citing opinions
picketing involves elements of both speech and conduct, i.e., patrolling, and because of this intermingling of protected and unprotected elements, picketing can be subjected to controls that would not be constitutionally permissible in the case of pure speech
How often courts cite the cases defining “picketing”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “picketing” — 1,546 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 · 1957–1968
- 1957·354 U.S. 284 - International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 695 v. Vogt, Inc.[p11]· cited 449×ORIGINAL
Picketing by an organized group is more than free speech, since it involves patrol of a particular locality and since the very presence of a picket line may induce action of one kind or another, quite irrespective of the nature of the ideas which are being disseminated.