Lee Art Theatre, Inc. v. Virginia’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
100 federal appellate · 18 district · 180 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 388 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2015 · most notably Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton (1973), Zurcher v. Stanford Daily (1978)
100 federal appellate · 18 district · 180 state decisions — followed in 30 states
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 Freedman v. Maryland · Marcus v. Search Warrant of Property · Redrup v. State of 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 388 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“focus searchingly on the question of obscenity.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“stated only the titles of the motion pictures and that the officer had determined . . . that the films were 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.