Kois v. Wisconsin’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
97 federal appellate · 18 district · 187 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 419 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Miller v. California (1973), Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton (1973)
97 federal appellate · 18 district · 187 state decisions — followed in 31 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 Roth v. United States · Thornhill v. Alabama · 51 Wis. 2d 668 - State v. Kois
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 419 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the average person, applying contemporary community standards”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A quotation from Voltaire in the flyleaf of a book will not constitutionally redeem an otherwise obscene publication.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“comprising an account of the author's recollection of sexual intercourse, that were published in an underground newspaper were not obscene. Appellant attaches special consideration to the fact that the Supreme Court did not allude to any requirement that the entire newspaper had to be”
2 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.