Gholson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2016
2 federal appellate · 11 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 Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Roth v. United States · Miller v. California · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We conclude that the statutory definition for the term “patently offensive” passes constitutional muster because in context within the statute, the word “decency” actually states a common meaning of what governs “current community standards.” i.e., whether to the average person the material ... is so offensive on its face as to affront current community standards of propriety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hoover v. Byrd
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.