Grove Press, Inc., and Readers' Subscription, Inc. v. Robert K. Christenberry, Individually and as Postmaster of the City of New York’s Empirical Analysis
276 F.2d 433 · 1960
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2010 · most notably Ginzburg v. United States (1966), Manual Enterprises, Inc. v. Day (1962)
12 federal appellate · 10 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 · Smith v. People of the State of California · Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson · Niemotko v. State of Maryland Kelley · Kingsley International Pictures Corp. v. Regents of the University
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In short, all these passages to which the [United States Attorney] takes exception — in bulk only a portion of the book — are subordinate, but highly useful, elements to the development of the author’s central purpose. And that is not prurient.” id. at 439 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.