preferred position
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 334 U.S. 558 - Saia v. People of State of New York · 1948Most cited · 972 citing opinions
Courts must balance the various community interests in passing on the constitutionality of local regulations of the character involved here. But in that process they should be mindful to keep the freedoms of the First Amendment in a preferred position.
How often courts cite the cases defining “preferred position”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “preferred position” — 1,350 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1944–1948
- ORIGINAL
Freedom of press, freedom of speech, freedom of religion are in a preferred position