chilling effect
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 380 U.S. 479 - Dombrowski v. Pfister · 1965Most cited · 4,950 citing opinions
The chilling effect upon the exercise of First Amendment rights may derive from the fact of the prosecution, unaffected by the prospects of its success or failure.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “chilling effect” — 4,928 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.