Monfred v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 1987 · most notably Sanza v. Maryland State Board of Censors (1967), Gray v. State (1969)
2 district · 25 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 Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Roth v. United States · Winters v. People of State of New York · Smith v. People of the State of California · Watts v. Indiana
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Censorship of Obscenity: The Developing Constitutional Standards,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The word ‘obscene’ whenever it appears in the chapter to which this act is a supplement shall mean that which to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, when considered as a whole has as its dominant theme or purpose an appeal to prurient interest.” N. J. 8. 2A:115-1.1.”
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.