State v. Settle’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 7 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The title of §11-31-10 is ‘Sale or exhibition to minors of indecent publications, pictures, or articles.’ The word ‘commercially’ not only modifies the word ‘distribute’ but it modifies each one of the proceeding words, ‘sell,’ ‘lend,’ ‘give away,’ ‘show,’ and ‘advertise for sale.’ It is obvious from a reading of the statute that it is not directed against and does not embrace the father who gives to a youthful member of his family a book which comes under the ban of the law. The statute by its own terms is directed against those who, directly or indirectly for pecuniary gain, are possessing and handling publications of the sort described.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Koohy

2. ““Every person who shall wilfully or knowingly sell, lend, give away, show, advertise for sale or distribute commercially to any person under the age of eighteen (18) years or has in his possession with intent to give, lend, show, sell, distribute commercially, or otherwise offer for sale or commercial distribution to any individual under the age of eighteen (18) years any pornographic motion picture * * * shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment for not more than two (2) years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Koohy