United States v. Dennett’s Empirical Analysis
39 F.2d 564 · 1930
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1985 · most notably Roth v. United States (1957), Ginsberg v. New York (1968)
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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
Relies on Rosen v. United States · Dunlop v. United States · Dysart v. United States · People v. . Eastman · Knowles v. United States
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he test most frequently laid down seems to have been whether it would tend to deprave the morals of those into whose hands the publication might fall by suggesting lewd thoughts and exciting sensual desires.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“rationalize and dignify [sex] emotions rather than to arouse lust”
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.