Bethview Amusement Corp. v. Cahn’s Empirical Analysis
416 F.2d 410 · 1969
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1984 · most notably Heller v. New York (1973), United States v. Edward A. Wild, Jr. And Louis Corrado (1970)
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson · Marcus v. Search Warrant of Property · A Quantity of Copies of Books v. Kansas · Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. City of Dallas · Tyrone, Inc. v. Wilkinson
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Finally it is suggested that unless the police or other local authorities have actual possession of the film pending the required adversary proceeding, the distributor may take advantage of the delay, for example, by shipping the film out of the jurisdiction or by cutting out the offending scenes. If there is a real threat of such activity it can be controlled by an ex parte restraining order.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if seizure of books precedes an adversary determination of their obscenity, there is danger of abridgement of the right of the public in a free society to unobstructed circulation of non-obscene books.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the procedure leading to the seizure order was constitutionally deficient.”
1 later decision 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.