Waller v. Osbourne’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
August 2000
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Roth v. United States · Miller v. California
Most-quoted passages
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“initially resolve the issue of whether, as a matter of law, the song “Suicide Solution” on the album “Blizzard of Oz” contains subliminal messages as alleged by plaintiffs. The court finds this step necessary because it is convinced that the presence of a subliminal message, whose surreptitious nature makes it more akin to false and misleading commercial speech and other forms of speech extremely limited in their social value, would relegate the music containing such to a class worthy of little, if any, first amendment constitutional protection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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