Rhodes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2008 · most notably 590 So. 2d 404 - Schmitt v. State (1991), Carver v. Florida (1978)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1462 · 19 U.S.C. § 1305 (Tariff Act of 1930)
Relies on Roth v. United States · Miller v. California · Bouie v. City of Columbia · Freedman v. Maryland · Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. We have said in plain, understandable language that these statutory words proscribe”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A person who knowingly . . . has in his possession, custody, or control with intent to sell, lend, give away, distribute, transmit, show, transmute, or advertise in any manner, any obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, indecent, sadistic, or masochistic . . . motion-picture FILM . . . IS GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR OF THE FIrst degree . . . . a person who, after having been convicted of a violation of this subsection, thereafter violates any of its provisions, is guilty of a felony of the third degree . . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"(a) Patently offensive representations or descriptions of ultimate sex acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated. (or) "`(b) Patently offensive representations or descriptions of masturbation, excretory functions, and lewd exhibition of the genitals', where such material, taken as a whole, when viewed by the average person applying contemporary community standards, appeals to the prurient interest and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value)."”
2 later decisions 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.