pure speech
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 379 U.S. 536 - Cox v. State of Louisiana · 1965Most cited · 2,813 citing opinions
The First and Fourteenth Amendments do not afford the same kind of freedom to those who would communicate ideas by conduct such as patrolling, marching, and picketing on streets and highways as these amendments afford to those who communicate ideas by pure speech.
How often courts cite the case defining “pure speech”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “pure speech” — 2,801 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.