intermediate
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 490 U.S. 401 - Thornburgh v. Abbott · 1989Most cited · 2,383 citing opinions
of evaluating speech restrictions, 416 U.S., at 407, 94 S.Ct., at 1808, allowing censorship if it "further[ed] an important or substantial governmental interest unrelated to the suppression of expression," and "the limitation of First Amendment freedoms [was] no greater than [was] necessary or essential," "id.," at 413, 94 S.Ct., at 1811.
How often courts cite the case defining “intermediate”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “intermediate” — 2,348 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.