acting in private
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 539 U.S. 558 - Lawrence v. Texas · 2003Most cited · 2,041 citing opinions
surely consensual sodomy, like heterosexual intercourse, is rarely performed on stage.
How often courts cite the case defining “acting in private”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “acting in private” — 2,035 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.