State v. Roufa’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 1994
20 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 Morissette v. United States · Roth v. United States · Dennis v. United States · Reynolds v. States · Smith v. People of the State of California
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exhibition... with the intent to primarily appeal to the prurient interest of the average person, of any lewd, lascivious, filthy or sexually indecent ... motion picture film ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.