Prostitution
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 208 U.S. 393 - United States v. John Bitty · 1908Most cited · 147 citing opinions
There can be no doubt as to what class was aimed at by the clause forbidding the importation of alien women for purposes of 'prostitution.' It refers to women who, for hire or without hire, offer their bodies to indiscriminate intercourse with men.
How often courts cite the case defining “Prostitution”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Prostitution” — 147 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.