16 N.C. App. 456 - State v. Bryant’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bumper v. North Carolina · Jacobellis v. Ohio · Book Named 'John Cleland's Memoirs of Woman of Pleasure' v. Attorney General of Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Consolidation Coal Co. v. South-East Coal Co. · Knowles v. United States
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to intentionally disseminate obscenity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We hold that any citizen who desires to obey the law will have no difficulty in understanding the conduct proscribed by this statute. The dissemination of obscenity is not protected by the Constitutions; thus, this statute by its terms does not infringe upon the rights to disseminate protected material. In the statute it is required that one must ‘intentionally disseminate obscenity.’ We hold that therefore this statute does require a finding of intent and guilty knowledge before a defendant may be convicted thereunder. We reject defendants’ contention that the statute is vague, overbroad, or does not require an intent and guilty knowledge. We hold that the statute is not unconstitutional. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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