press
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 303 U.S. 444 - Lovell v. City of Griffin · 1938Most cited · 2,446 citing opinions
The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in the defense of liberty, as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine and others in our own history abundantly attest. The press in its connotation comprehends every sort of publication which affords a vehicle of information and opinion.
How often courts cite the case defining “press”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “press” — 2,441 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.