Sexual conduct
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 458 U.S. 747 - New York v. Ferber · 1982Most cited · 4,356 citing opinions
actual or simulated sexual intercourse, deviate sexual intercourse, sexual bestiality, masturbation, sado-masochistic abuse, or lewd exhibition of the genitals.
How often courts cite the cases defining “Sexual conduct”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “Sexual conduct” — 6,507 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 · 1968–1982
- ORIGINAL
acts of masturbation, homosexuality, sexual intercourse, or physical contact with a person's clothed or unclothed genitals, public area, buttocks or, if such person be a female, breast.