Solicit
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 209 U.S. 39 - United States v. Thayer · 1908Most cited · 67 citing opinions
Of course it is possible to solicit by letter as well as in person. It is equally clear that the person who writes the letter and intentionally puts it in the way of delivery solicits, whether the delivery is accomplished by agents of the writer, by agents of the person addressed, or by independent middlemen, if it takes place in the intended way. ... The constitutional requirement is as to the locality of the offense, and not the personal presence of the offender.
How often courts cite the case defining “Solicit”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Solicit” — 67 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.