Gitlow v. New York

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First Amendment case U.S. Supreme Court case incorporation doctrine case landmark case

Gitlow v. New York is a 1925 U.S. Supreme Court case that marked a major step in applying First Amendment free speech protections to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
Benjamin Gitlow v. People of the State of New York	1
Gitlow	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	First Amendment case ⓘ U.S. Supreme Court case ⓘ incorporation doctrine case ⓘ landmark case ⓘ
hasCategory	United States Fourteenth Amendment case law ⓘ United States free speech case law ⓘ United States incorporation doctrine case law ⓘ
hasCharge	distributing a manifesto advocating the overthrow of the government by force ⓘ
hasCitation	268 U.S. 652 ⓘ
hasConstitutionalProvision	First Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ Fourteenth Amendment ⓘ surface form: Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
hasContext	Red Scare era ⓘ
hasCountry	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
hasCourt	Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ
hasDecisionDate	1925-06-08 ⓘ
hasDissentBy	Justice Louis D. Brandeis ⓘ surface form: Louis D. Brandeis Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. ⓘ
hasDoctrine	incorporation of the Bill of Rights ⓘ
hasEra	Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ surface form: Taft Court
hasFullCaseName	Gitlow v. New York self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Benjamin Gitlow v. People of the State of New York
hasHolding	First Amendment freedom of speech and press protections apply to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause ⓘ a state may punish speech that advocates the overthrow of government by force or violence if such speech involves a sufficient tendency to result in such action ⓘ
hasJurisdictionBasis	federal constitutional question ⓘ
hasKeyConcept	dangerous tendency test ⓘ freedom of political expression ⓘ selective incorporation ⓘ
hasLegalIssue	application of the First Amendment to the states ⓘ criminal anarchy laws ⓘ freedom of speech ⓘ freedom of the press ⓘ
hasLowerCourt	New York Supreme Court ⓘ surface form: New York courts
hasMajorityOpinionBy	Edward Terry Sanford ⓘ
hasOutcome	conviction affirmed ⓘ
hasPartyRole	Gitlow was a socialist political activist ⓘ
hasPetitioner	Benjamin Gitlow ⓘ
hasProceduralPosture	appeal from a state criminal conviction ⓘ
hasPublicationType	reported decision in the United States Reports ⓘ
hasRelatedTest	clear and present danger test (discussed in dissent) ⓘ
hasRespondent	U.S. state of New York ⓘ surface form: State of New York
hasSignificance	first major case in which the Supreme Court assumed that First Amendment protections apply to the states ⓘ important step in development of the incorporation doctrine ⓘ limited protection for radical political speech at the time ⓘ
hasStateLawInvolved	New York State statutes ⓘ surface form: New York Criminal Anarchy Law
hasSubsequentInfluence	paved the way for later robust free speech decisions such as Brandenburg v. Ohio ⓘ
hasVote	7–2 ⓘ
hasYear	1925 ⓘ

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this entity surface form: Benjamin Gitlow v. People of the State of New York

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subject surface form: Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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Abrams v. United States → relatedCase → Gitlow v. New York ⓘ

Palko v. Connecticut → relatedCase → Gitlow v. New York ⓘ

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