United States v. Wasserman’s Empirical Analysis
504 F.2d 1012 · 1974
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1461
Relies on Hamling v. United States · Roth v. United States · Miller v. California · Bouie v. City of Columbia · Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Magee
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.