overbreadth
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 389 U.S. 241 - Zwickler v. Koota · 1967Most cited · 3,142 citing opinions
a governmental purpose to control or prevent activities constitutionally subject to state regulation may not be achieved by means which sweep unnecessarily broadly and thereby invade the area of protected freedoms
How often courts cite the case defining “overbreadth”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “overbreadth” — 3,127 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.