One, Inc. v. Olesen’s Empirical Analysis
241 F.2d 772 · 1957
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1971 · most notably Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964), Ginzburg v. United States (1966)
22 federal appellate · 8 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Rosen v. United States · Dunlop v. United States · Orvis v. Higgins · Swearingen v. United States
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The article ‘Sappho Remembered’ is the story of a lesbian’s influence on a young girl * * *. This article is nothing more than cheap pornography calculated to promote lesbianism. It falls far short of dealing with homosexuality from the scientific, historical and critical point of view. “The poem ‘Lord Samuel and Lord Montagu’ is about the alleged homosexual activities of Lord Montagu and other British Peers and contains a warning to all males to avoid the public toilets while Lord Samuel is ‘sniffing round the drains’ of Piccadilly (London). The poem pertains to sexual matters of such a vulgar and indecent nature that it tends to arouse a feeling of disgust and revulsion. It is dirty, vulgar and offensive to the moral senses. “An examination of ‘The Circle’ clearly reveals that it contains obscene and filthy matter which is offensive to the moral senses, morally depraving and debasing, and that it is designed for persons who have lecherous and salacious proclivities. “The picture and the sketches are obscene and filthy by prevailing standards. The stories ‘All This and Heaven Too’, and ‘Not Til the End’, pages 32-36, are similar to the story ‘Sappho Remembered’, except that they relate to the activities of the homosexuals rather than lesbians. Such stories are obscene, lewd and lascivious. They are offensive to the moral senses, morally depraving and debasing.” ( 241 F. 2d 772, 777, 778 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Monfred v. State
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.