Shinall v. Worrell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to intentionally disseminate obscenity in any public place. A person, firm or corporation disseminates obscenity within the meaning of this Article if he or it: * * * “ (3) Publishes, exhibits or otherwise makes available anything obscene; or “(4) Exhibits, broadcasts, televises, presents, rents, sells, delivers, or provides; or offers or agrees to exhibit, broadcast, televise, present, rent or to provide; any obscene still or motion picture, film, filmstrip, or projection slide, or sound recording, sound tape, or sound track, or any matter or material of whatever form which is a representation, embodiment, performance, or publication of the obscene. “(b) For purposes of this Article any material is obscene if: “ (1) The dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest in sex; and, “ (2) The material is patently offensive because it affronts contemporary national community standards relating to the description or representation of sexual matters; and, “(3) The material is utterly without redeeming social value; and, “(4) The material as used is not protected or privileged under the Constitution of the United States or the Constitution of North Carolina.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Bryant

2. ““* * * three elements must coalesce: it must be established that (a) the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex; (b) the material is patently offensive, because it affronts contemporary community standards relating to the description or representation of sexual matters, and (c) the material is utterly without redeeming social value.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gregory v. Gaffney