epithets
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 310 U.S. 296 - Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · 1940Most cited · 6,192 citing opinions
Resort to epithets or personal abuse is not in any proper sense communication of information or opinion safeguarded by the Constitution, and its punishment as a criminal act would raise no question under that instrument.
How often courts cite the case defining “epithets”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “epithets” — 6,173 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.