white slave
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 324 U.S. 193 - United States v. Beach · 1945Most cited · 44 citing opinions
only those women and girls who are literally slaves — those women who are owned and held as property and chattels — whose lives are lives of involuntary servitude; those who practice prostitution as a result of the activities of the procurer, and who, for a considerable period at least, continue to lead their degraded lives because of the power exercised over them by their owners." H. Rep.
How often courts cite the case defining “white slave”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “white slave” — 44 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.