Morris v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 1981
1 district · 13 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 · Jacobellis v. Ohio · Book Named 'John Cleland's Memoirs of Woman of Pleasure' v. Attorney General of Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Moses Lake Homes, Inc. v. Grant County · Ginzburg 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here obscenity per se is involved, the prosecution is not required to offer any evidence (beyond the material or performance itself) * * * that it is below the national community standards. Womack, supra; Hudson [Hudson v. United States, D.C.App., 234 A.2d 903 ], supra. In other words if reasonable men could not differ and they could come to but one conclusion, i. e., that the material or performance is sexually morbid,, grossly perverse, and bizarre, without any artistic or scientific purpose or justification, then the Government on its case-in-chief need not offer any evidence of national community standards.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“There is no desire to portray [it] in pseudo-scientific or “arty” terms. It can be recognized by the insult it offers, invariably, to sex and to the human spirit. It goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor and deviates from society’s standards of decency in the representation of the matters in which it deals. It has a patent absence of any redeeming social value; it speaks for itself and screams for all to hear that it is obscene. It is not designed to be a truthful description of the basic realities of life as the individual experiences them but its main purpose [is] to stimulate erotic response. * * * No proof, other than the viewing of it, is required to determine if it is, in fact, obscene.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hearn v. Short
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.