Ballew v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2003
15 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 6
Relies on Roth v. United States · Miller v. California · Bouie v. City of Columbia · Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton · Ginsberg v. New York
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value,”
1 later decision 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.