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Skinner v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
January 2011
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2011 · most notably State Ex Rel. Lykos v. Fine (2011), Briggs v. State (1987)

1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions

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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 Jackson v. Virginia · Burks v. United States · Greene v. Massey · Griffin v. State · Goocher v. State

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

  1. “(W)e do not mean to imply or leave the inference or impression that we are holding that promoters of obscene material are beyond the law. They are not. The above simply means that the prosecution must prove its accusation without the statutory presumption.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Gonzales v. State · Abor v. State
  2. “(e) A person who promotes or wholesale promotes obscene material or an obscene device or possesses the same with intent to promote or wholesale promote it in the course of his business is presumed to do so with knowledge of its content and character.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Carr v. State · Kramer v. State
  3. “The relevant question is whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Abor v. State

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.