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← 499 F. Supp. 646 - Postscript Enterprises, Inc. v. Whaley

499 F. Supp. 646 - Postscript Enterprises, Inc. v. Whaley’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
September 1981
most recently cited

2 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Eisenstadt v. Baird · Grayned v. City of Rockford

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 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a manufactured item, usually made of rubber, which is used by some in connection with sexual activity and which is likely to have a tendency to encourage such activity.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “any contraceptive or sex-inciting device or contrivance, or any prophylactic rubber goods or prophylactic membranes.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “When read in conjunction with the surrounding language of Section 772.010, the phrase”
    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.