Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
530 federal appellate · 115 district · 938 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,275 later decisions (295 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. (1974), Hamling v. United States (1974)
530 federal appellate · 115 district · 938 state decisions — followed in 48 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
Applies 23 U.S.C. § 138 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000A (Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 49 U.S.C. § 303
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Roe v. Wade · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · United States v. O'Brien
Cited together with Miller v. California · Roth v. United States · United States v. 12 200-Ft. Reels of Super 8MM. Film · Hamling v. United States · Stanley v. Georgia
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 2,275 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the average person, applying contemporary community standards”
205 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(It was not) error to fail to require 'expert' affirmative evidence that the materials were obscene when the materials themselves were actually placed in evidence. . . . The films, obviously, are the best evidence of what they represent. 'In the cases in which this Court has decided obscenity questions since Roth, it has regarded the materials as sufficient in themselves for the determination of the question.' Ginzburg v. United States, 383 U.S. 463 , 465, 86 S.Ct. 942, 944, 16 L.Ed.2d 31 (1966).”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]he constitutionally protected privacy of family, marriage, motherhood, procreation and child rearing is not just concerned with a particular place, but with a protected intimate relationship. Such protected privacy extends to the doctor's office, the hospital, the hotel room, or as otherwise required to safeguard the right to intimacy involved.” Paris Adult Theatre I, supra, 413 U.S. at 66, n. 13 (Emphasis added)”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.