State v. Chobot’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 1999 · most notably 96 Wis. 2d 646 - State v. Princess Cinema of Milwaukee, Inc. (1980), 66 Wis. 2d 71 - City of Madison v. Nickel (1974)
6 federal appellate · 22 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 Roth v. United States · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Smith v. People of the State of California · United States v. Petrillo · Sunshine Book Co. v. Summerfield
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Whoever intentionally does any of the following may be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than 5 years or both: "(a) Imports, prints, advertises, sells, has in his possession for sale, or publishes, exhibits, or transfers commercially any lewd, obscene or indecent written matter, picture, sound recording, or film. . . .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““(a) the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex; (b) the material is patently offensive because it affronts contemporary community standards relating to the description or representation of sexual matters; and (c) the material is utterly without redeeming social value.” 4”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The word ‘obscene’ whenever it appears in the chapter to which this act is a supplement shall mean that which to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, when considered as a whole has as its dominant theme or purpose an appeal to prurient interest.” N. J. 8. 2A:115-1.1.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.