7 Ohio St. 2d 136 - State v. Mazes’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 19 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““* # # [I]t must be established that (a) the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex; (b) the material is patently offensive because it affronts contemporary community standards relating to the description or representation of sexual matters; and (c) the material is utterly without redeeming social value.5 ’”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 28 Ohio App. 2d 107 - State Ex Rel. Ewing v. a Motion Picture Film Entitled "Without a Stitch" · 35 Ohio App. 2d 147 - State v. Boyd