Roth v. Goldman’s Empirical Analysis
172 F.2d 788 · 1949
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1980 · most notably Roth v. United States (1957), Manual Enterprises, Inc. v. Day (1962)
14 federal appellate · 5 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 Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Thornhill v. Alabama · Skinner v. State of Oklahoma Williamson · United States v. Carolene Products Co. · Schneider v. State
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I think that no sane man thinks socially dangerous the arousing of normal sexual desires. Consequently, if reading obscene books has merely that consequence, Congress, it would seem, can constitutionally no more suppress such books than it can prevent the mailing of many other objects, such as perfumes, for example, which notoriously produce that result. But the constitutional power to suppress obscene publications might well exist if there were ample reason to believe that reading them conduces to socially harmful sexual conduct on the part of normal human beings.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“American public opinion on the subject of obscenity.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.