conduct mixed with speech
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 379 U.S. 559 - Cox v. State of Louisiana · 1965Most cited · 1,811 citing opinions
[I]t has never been deemed an abridgment of freedom of speech or press to make a course of conduct illegal merely because the conduct was in part initiated, evidenced, or carried out by means of language, either spoken, written, or printed.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “conduct mixed with speech” — 1,802 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.