Meyer v. Austin’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Roth v. United States · Freedman v. Maryland · Near v. State of Minnesota Olson · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers · Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan
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.
“"For the purposes of this section, the test of whether or not material is obscene is: Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"A person who knowingly ... has in his possession custody or control with intent to sell ... any obscene ... magazine ... is guilty of a misdemeanor ..."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the material is utterly without redeeming social value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rhodes v. State
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.