Sunshine Book Co. v. Summerfield’s Empirical Analysis
249 F.2d 114 · 1957
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 6 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1980 · most notably Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964), California v. LaRue (1973)
38 federal appellate · 6 district · 14 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 Roth v. United States · Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson · Kingsley Books, Inc. v. Brown · Ex parte Jackson · Niemotko v. State of Maryland Kelley
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the dominant purpose of nudity is to promote lust, it is obscene and indecent. The distribution and sale of the magazines in this case is a most objectionable example. The dominant purpose of the photographs in these magazines is to attract the attention of the public by an appeal to their sexual impulses. * * * Men, women, youths of both sexes, and even children, can purchase these magazines. They will have a libidinous effect upon most ordinary, normal, healthy individuals. Their effect upon the abnormal individual may be more disastrous.” ( 249 F. 2d 114, 118, 119 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.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.