State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2004
2 district · 10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Hamling v. United States · Roth v. United States · Miller v. California · Colten v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“mere availability of similar materials is not by itself sufficiently probative of community standards to be admissible in the absence of proof that the material enjoys a reasonable degree of community acceptance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brouwer“[Availability] is no indication that the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would not consider the [ ] magazines [in a particular case] to be obscene.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brouwer“The fact that sexually explicit material was obtained in a particular locality does not establish a reasonable degree of community acceptance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brouwer
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.