censorship proceeding
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 380 U.S. 51 - Freedman v. Maryland · 1965Most cited · 3,041 citing opinions
a censorship proceeding puts the initial burden on the exhibitor or distributor. Because the censor's business is to censor, there inheres the danger that he may well be less responsive than a court—part of an independent branch of government—to the constitutionally protected interests in free expression
How often courts cite the case defining “censorship proceeding”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “censorship proceeding” — 3,040 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.