Walker v. Ohio’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Roth v. United States · Jacobellis v. Ohio · Book Named 'John Cleland's Memoirs of Woman of Pleasure' v. Attorney General of Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Redrup v. State of New York · Cain v. Kentucky
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“I find no justification, constitutional or otherwise, for this Court assuming the role of a supreme and unreviewable board of censorship for the 50 States, subjectively judging each piece of material brought before it without regard to the findings or conclusions of other courts, state or federal. That is not one of the purposes for which this Court was established. [107]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hearn v. Short
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.