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vagueness test

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 341 U.S. 223 - Jordan v. De George · 1951Most cited · 1,944 citing opinions

The test is whether the language conveys sufficiently definite warning as to the proscribed conduct when measured by common understanding and practices.

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “vagueness test” — 1,944 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.