calculated falsehood
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 379 U.S. 64 - Garrison v. State of Louisiana · 1964Most cited · 3,391 citing opinions
the knowingly false statement and the false statement made with reckless disregard of the truth, do not enjoy constitutional protection
How often courts cite the case defining “calculated falsehood”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “calculated falsehood” — 3,376 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.