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”
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.