State v. Carlson’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1461
Relies on Roth v. United States · Jacobellis v. Ohio · Book Named 'John Cleland's Memoirs of Woman of Pleasure' v. Attorney General of Commonwealth of Massachusetts · United States v. District Court · United States v. Thirty-Seven (37) Photographs
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is unlawful for any person knowingly to exhibit * * * any obscene * * * motion picture film * * *. `Obscene' for the purpose of this section is defined as follows: Whether to the average person, applying contemporary standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lebewitz
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.