Smiley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
July 1997
most recently cited
4 district · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Miller v. California · New York v. Ferber · Colautti v. Franklin · Stevenson v. State
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.
“"(a) Any person, firm or corporation is guilty of a misdemeanor if it knowingly displays for advertising purposes any picture, photograph, drawing, sculpture or other visual representation or image of a person or portion of the human body that depicts [nudity,] sadomasochistic abuse, sexual conduct or sexual excitement, or any verbal description or narrative account of these activities or items [AND WHICH IS OBSCENE].””
3 later decisions 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.