Flynt v. Ohio’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 6 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2014 · most notably Teague v. Lane (1989), Arcara v. Cloud Books, Inc. (1986)
43 federal appellate · 6 district · 12 state decisions
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 Miller v. California · Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn · Wood v. Georgia · Whitus v. State of Georgia Whitus · Berman 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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the final-judgment rule has been interpreted 'to preclude reviewability ... where anything further remains to be determined by a state court, no matter how dissociated from the only federal issue that has finally been adjudicated by the highest court of the State'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“probability of piecemeal review with respect to federal issues [because] [i]t appears that other federal issues will be involved in the trial court such as whether or not the publication[s] at issue [are] obscene.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]pplied in the context of a criminal prosecution, finality is normally defined by the imposition of the sentence.”
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.