second-class mail privilege
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 229 U.S. 288 - Lewis Publishing Co. v. Morgan · 1913Most cited · 184 citing opinions
the assailed provision when rightly construed only affixes additional conditions for admission to a privileged class of mail, and it was merely designed to provide for the continuance on compliance with designated conditions of a system under which vast sums of public money were expended, to the end that the power and influence of the press might be expanded.
How often courts cite the case defining “second-class mail privilege”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “second-class mail privilege” — 184 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.