communication facility
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 556 U.S. 816 - Abuelhawa v. United States · 2009Most cited · 114 citing opinions
any and all public and private instrumentalities used or useful in the transmission of writing, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds of all kinds and includes mail, telephone, wire, radio, and all other means of communication." Section 843(d) provides, subject to exceptions not at issue here, that "any person who violates this section shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not more than 4 years, a fine ..., or both."
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How often courts cite the case defining “communication facility”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “communication facility” — 114 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.