obscene material
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 413 U.S. 15 - Miller v. California · 1973Most cited · 5,402 citing opinions
material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest,' Roth v. United States, supra, 354 U.S., at 487, 77 S.Ct., at 1310, but the Roth definition does not reflect the precise meaning of 'obscene' as traditionally used in the English language.
How often courts cite the case defining “obscene material”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “obscene material” — 5,394 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.