prior restraints
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 372 U.S. 58 - Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan · 1963Most cited · 2,353 citing opinions
Any system of prior restraints of expression comes to this Court bearing a heavy presumption against its constitutional validity. We have tolerated such a system only where it operated under judicial superintendence and assured an almost immediate judicial determination of the validity of the restraint.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “prior restraints” — 2,338 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.