Price v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 2000
4 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 Chapman v. State of California · Fahy v. Connecticut · Smith v. People of the State of California · Stanford v. Texas · Zurcher v. Stanford Daily
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.
“impossible for the fact finder at trial to view the entire material before it made the ultimate judgment that, `taken as a whole the books appealed to the prurient interest' [and] ... to find possible `literary artistic, political or scientific value,' [Section 43.21(1)(c), Penal Code].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in the procedure before seizure designed to focus searchingly on the question of obscenity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.