Matter
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 429 U.S. 930 - Taylor v. Tennessee · 1976Most cited · 143 citing opinions
any book, magazine, newspaper, or other printed or written material or any picture, drawing, photograph, motion picture film, or other pictorial representation, or any statute, figure, device, theatrical production or live performance, or any recording, transcription, or mechanical, chemical or electrical reproduction, or any other article, equipment, machine or material that is obscene as defined by §§ 39-3010 39-3022.
How often courts cite the case defining “Matter”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Matter” — 143 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.