West v. Texas’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
July 1975
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miller v. California · Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton · United States v. 12 200-Ft. Reels of Super 8MM. Film · Heller v. New York · Roaden 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every person who knowingly: . . . prepares for distribution, publishes, prints, exhibits, distributes, or offers to distribute, . . . any obscene matter is guilty of a misdemeanor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Burkett v. State
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.