State v. Haltom’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
December 2007
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Roth v. United States · Miller v. California · Lockhart v. Nelson · Brockett v. Spokane Arcades, Inc. · State v. Anderson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Obscene” shall mean (a) that an average person applying contemporary community standards would find that the work, material, conduct, or live performance taken as a whole predominantly appeals to the prurient interest or a shamefiil or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion, (b) the work, material, conduct, or live performance depicts or describes in a patently offensive way sexual conduct. . . and (c) the work conduct, material, or live performance taken as a whole lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Haltom
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.