Walker v. Popenoe’s Empirical Analysis
149 F.2d 511 · 1945
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1980 · most notably Roth v. United States (1957), Manual Enterprises, Inc. v. Day (1962)
27 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 334
Relies on American School of Magnetic Healing v. McAnnulty · United States Milwaukee Social Democratic Pub Co v. Burleson · American School of Magnetic Healing v. McAnnulty · Parmelee v. United States · Depen v. Lawyers' Title & Guaranty Co.
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The standard must be the likelihood that the work will so much arouse the salacity of the reader to whom it is sent as to outweigh any literary, scientific or other merits it may have.””
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.