Heller v. New York’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
228 federal appellate · 54 district · 384 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,023 later decisions (181 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Young v. American Mini Theatres, Inc. (1976), Southeastern Promotions, Ltd. v. Conrad (1975)
228 federal appellate · 54 district · 384 state decisions — followed in 36 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 Mapp v. Ohio · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Johnson v. United States · Miller v. California · Sedillo v. United States
Cited together with Miller v. California · Roaden v. Kentucky · Marcus v. Search Warrant of Property · Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton · Roth 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 1,023 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a seizure is pursuant to a warrant, issued after a determination of probable cause by a neutral magistrate, and following the seizure, a prompt judicial determination of the obscenity issue is available at the request of any interested party, the seizure is constitutionally permissible.”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If such a seizure is pursuant to a warrant, issued after a determination of probable cause by a neutral magistrate, and, following the seizure, a prompt judicial determination of the obscenity issue in an adversary proceeding is available at the request of any interested party the seizure is constitutionally permissible.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“focus searchingly on the question of obscenity.”
6 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.