170 Tex. Crim. 231 - Malone v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1994
9 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 · Smith v. People of the State of California · Alexander v. United States · Grove Press, Inc., and Readers' Subscription, Inc. v. Robert K. Christenberry, Individually and as Postmaster of the City of New York · Empire Pictures Distributing Company, Inc., and Kingsley International Pictures Corporation v. City of Fort Worth
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any magazine containing material which is denounced by penal statute and condemned when measured by application of the following test: `Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.'”
2 later decisions 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.