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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 268 U.S. 652 - Gitlow v. People of the State of New York · 1925Most cited · 1,692 citing opinions

It is not the abstract 'doctrine' of overthrowing organized government by unlawful means which is denounced by the statute, but the advocacy of action for the accomplishment of that purpose.

How often courts cite the case defining “advocacy”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “advocacy” — 1,687 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.