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Speech or Debate Clause

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 383 U.S. 169 - United States v. Johnson · 1966Most cited · 880 citing opinions

the privilege should be read broadly, to include not only words spoken in debate, but anything generally done in a session of the House by one of its members in relation to the business before it

How often courts cite the case defining “Speech or Debate Clause”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Speech or Debate Clause” — 877 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.