Flynt v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably 223 Wis. 2d 373 - County of Kenosha v. C & S MANAGEMENT, INC. (1999), Harris v. Entertainment Systems, Inc. (1989)
34 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 San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Hamling v. United States · Roth v. United States · Miller v. California · Stanley v. Georgia
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“merely inquired as to general opinions concerning the depiction of `nudity and sex,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'The rationale behind the admission of 'comparative' evidence is to allow the defendant in an obscenity case the opportunity to attempt to persuade the trier of fact that the challenged material does not exceed contemporary community standards, as represented by the comparable material and against which the challenged material is judged. The comparative material is tangible evidence of contemporary community standards. * a * * * La Such evidence ... would show 'community acceptance' of material 'similar' to that distributed by the defendant and thus would have bearing on the issue before the jury-whether the defendant knowingly distributed obscene material.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brouwer · Fordyce v. State“Womack merely requires an adequate foundation to be laid for the introduction of comparison evidence .... The burden is on the defendant and in the absence of such a showing, the evidence must be excluded as lacking sufficient probative value.”
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.