State v. Lerner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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

1. ““Nudity in art has long been recognized as the reverse of obscene. Art galleries and art catalogues contain many nudes, ancient and modem. Even such a conservative source book as Encyclopaedia Britannica contains nudes, full front view, male and female, and nude males and females pictured together and in physical contact.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Hueston

2. ““I think the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 114 F. Supp. 823 - New American Library of World Literature, Inc. v. Allen

3. “Judicial Censorship of Obscene Literature,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 11 N.J. Super. 487 - State v. Weitershausen