Topic: a law is overbroad if it sweeps within its prohibitions con… · Go Syfert
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4 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 17 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from City of Seattle v. Huff.

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1 City of Seattle v. Huff Anchor
wash · 1989
green “a law is overbroad if it sweeps within its prohibitions constitutionally protected free speech activities.” 6
2 O'DAY v. King County
wash · 1988
green “void for vagueness if it is framed in terms so vague that persons of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application.” 5
3 O'DAY v. King County
wash · 1988
green “under the fourteenth amendment, a penal statute is void for vagueness if it is framed in terms so vague that persons of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application.” 3
4 O'DAY v. King County
wash · 1988
green “where first amendment freedoms are at stake a greater degree of specificity and clarity of purpose is essential.” 3

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