heresy trial
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 322 U.S. 78 - United States v. Ballard · 1944Most cited · 1,042 citing opinions
Heresy trials are foreign to our Constitution. Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrines or beliefs.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “heresy trial” — 1,036 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.