Smith v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “The instructions to the jury specifically required the jury to find beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused ‘had knowledge' of the obscenity of the material before any finding of guilt could be had.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Heald
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1973-07-06· cited 28×
• Keene v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1974-12-13· cited 12×
• Roaden v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1971-06-25· cited 11×
• Cherokee News & Arcade, Inc. v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1973-01-26· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Durham
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-10-25· cited 9×
• Hayes v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1971-05-14· cited 6×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1971-12-17· cited 4×
• Coleman v. Wilson
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1973-03-21· cited 1×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Roth v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-06-24· cited 3,255×
• Jacobellis v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 1,335×
• Marcus v. Search Warrant of Property
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-19· cited 752×
• A Quantity of Copies of Books v. Kansas
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 503×
• Delta Book Distributors, Inc. v. Cronvich
  E.D. Louisiana· 1969-09-03· cited 81×
• Cain v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1970-03-30· cited 52×
• Gable v. Jenkins
  N.D. Georgia· 1970-04-20· cited 50×
• Gable v. Jenkins
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-20· cited 48×
• Stein v. Batchelor
  N.D. Texas· 1969-06-09· cited 48×
• Snyder v. Ware
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-20· cited 38×
• State Ex Rel. Londerholm v. a Quantity of Copies of Books
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1966-07-14· cited 25×
• Cain v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1969-02-14· cited 24×
• Bocchicchio v. Curtis Publishing Co.
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1962-03-09· cited 11×
• Grove Press, Inc. v. State of Kansas
  D. Kansas· 1969-10-06· cited 11×
• Montague v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1960-02-19· cited 8×