State v. Locks’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 1990 · most notably State v. Berry (1966), In Re Pima County Juvenile Appeal No. 74802-2 (1990)
50 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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · Roth v. United States · Smith v. People of the State of California · Jacobellis v. Ohio · Manual Enterprises, Inc. v. Day
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The crime and the elements constituting it must be so clearly expressed that the ordinary person can intelligently choose in advance what course it is lawful for him to pursue. * * * ” [Emphasis added.]”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“"In the light of the problem concerning the meaning of the words `obscene and indecent,' we hold that the Arizona statute under which the Information in this case was filed is too indefinite and uncertain to permit this conviction to stand." 97 Ariz. at 152 , 397 P.2d at 952 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cota · State v. Cota““Where the keeping for sale and exhibiting of obscene or indecent writings or pictures is the charge before the court, it is incumbent upon the court to determine whether the material is obscene as a matter of law. Unless the material is obscene as a matter of law, the dissemination thereof is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. * * * ” State v. Locks, supra at 97 Ariz. 151 , 397 P.2d at 951 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.