Public Clearing House v. Coyne’s Empirical Analysis
194 U.S. 497 · 1904
Citation profile
126 federal appellate · 36 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 359 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2011 · most notably Roth v. United States (1957), Stanley v. Georgia (1969)
126 federal appellate · 36 district · 50 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Boyd v. United States · Lawton v. Steele · Durland v. United States · John Den James Murray and John Kayser v. The Hoboken Land and Improvement Company John Den James B Murray et al. · Ex parte Jackson
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 359 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For more than thirty years not only has the transmission of obscene matter been prohibited, but it has been made a crime, punishable by fine or imprisonment, for a person to deposit such matter in the mails. The constitutionality of this law we believe has never been attacked.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The return to the subscribing member, which is called a realization, is not only uncertain in its amount, but depends largely upon the number of new members each subscriber is able to secure, as well as the number of members which his co-operators are able to secure. The return to members who have been able to secure a large number of other members, and to pay their own monthly dues, may be very large in comparison with the amount paid in, but the amount of such return depends so largely, and, indeed almost wholly, upon conditions which the member is unable to control, that we think it fulfills all the conditions of a distribution of money by chance. ’ ’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“such printed matter or merchandise as may seem objectionable to it upon the ground of public policy * * *.”
2 later decisions 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.