unconstitutional as applied
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 404 U.S. 561 - United States v. Christian Echoes National Ministry, Inc. · 1972Most cited · 69 citing opinions
a holding that a statute is unconstitutional 'as applied' means that the section, by its own terms, infringed constitutional freedoms in the circumstances of the particular case—as distinguished from narrowly construing the statute to avoid a constitutional problem
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “unconstitutional as applied” — 69 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.