Alpers v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
175 F.2d 137 · 1949
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Appellate journey
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Applies 18 U.S.C. § 334
Relies on United States v. Chase · United States v. Herman a Salen · Arthur v. Moller · First Nat. Bank of Anamoose v. United States · United States v. Harman
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whoever shall . . . knowingly deposit or cause to be deposited with any express company or other common carrier [for carriage in interstate commerce] any obscene, lewd, or lascivious, or any filthy book, pamphlet, picture, motion-picture film, paper, letter, writing, print, or other matter of indecent character .. . shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.” 41 Stat. 1060 , 18 U. S. C. § 396 , now 18 U. S. C. § 1462 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“containing certain matter of an indecent character, to-wit: phonograph records impressed with recordings of obscene, lewd, lascivious and filthy language and obscene, lewd, lascivious and filthy stories.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.