52 Ill. App. 3d 203 - People v. Speer’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miller v. California · Smith v. People of the State of California · Jacobellis v. Ohio · Book Named 'John Cleland's Memoirs of Woman of Pleasure' v. Attorney General of Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Ward v. Illinois
Most-quoted passages
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““(a) whether the average person, applying contemporary community standards would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest, that is, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex or excretion; (b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct of the kind cited in the following examples: 1. patently offensive representations or descriptions of ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated; 2. patently offensive representations or descriptions of masturbation, excretory functions and lewd exhibition of the genitals. (c) whether the material is utterly without redeeming social value.” People v. Speer (1977), 52 Ill. App. 3d 203, 211 , 367 N.E.2d 372, 377 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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