Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. City of Dallas

Decided April 22, 1968. Thurgood Marshall delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 56 · 390 U.S. 676 (1968) · Cited 354 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 8–1.

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Precedents cited

Supreme Court decisions this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases in our collection link through; others are named.

• Roth v. United States · 354 U.S. 476 (1957)
• Kingsley International Pictures Corp. v. Regents of the University · 360 U.S. 684 (1959)
• A Book Named \John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure\" v. Attorney General of Massachusetts" · 383 U.S. 413 (1966)
• Jacobellis v. Ohio · 378 U.S. 184 (1964)
• Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan · 372 U.S. 58 (1963)
• Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson · 343 U.S. 495 (1952)
• Freedman v. Maryland · 380 U.S. 51 (1965)
• Ginzburg v. United States · 383 U.S. 463 (1966)
• Winters v. New York · 333 U.S. 507 (1948)
• United States v. Petrillo · 332 U.S. 1 (1947)
• Manual Enterprises, Inc. v. Day · 370 U.S. 478 (1962)
• Times Film Corp. v. City of Chicago · 365 U.S. 43 (1961)
• Superior Films, Inc. v. Department of Ed. of Ohio · 346 U.S. 587 (1954)
• National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Button · 371 U.S. 415 (1963)
• Smith v. California · 361 U.S. 147 (1959)
• Marcus v. Search Warrant of Property · 367 U.S. 717 (1961)
• Niemotko v. Maryland · 340 U.S. 268 (1951)
• A Quantity of Copies of Books v. Kansas · 378 U.S. 205 (1964)
• Kingsley Books, Inc. v. Brown · 354 U.S. 436 (1957)
• Mishkin v. New York · 383 U.S. 502 (1966)
• Butler v. Michigan · 352 U.S. 380 (1957)

Cited by

Later Supreme Court opinions in our collection that cite this case.

• Miller v. California · 413 U.S. 15 (1973)
• Young v. American Mini Theatres, Inc. · 427 U.S. 50 (1976)
• Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton · 413 U.S. 49 (1973)
• New York v. Ferber · 458 U.S. 747 (1982)
• Southeastern Promotions, Ltd. v. Conrad · 420 U.S. 546 (1975)
• Grayned v. City of Rockford · 408 U.S. 104 (1972)
• Stanley v. Georgia · 394 U.S. 557 (1969)
• United States v. Morrison · 529 U.S. 598 (2000)
• Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham · 394 U.S. 147 (1969)
• Erznoznik v. City of Jacksonville · 422 U.S. 205 (1975)
• California v. LaRue · 409 U.S. 109 (1972)
• Pope v. Illinois · 481 U.S. 497 (1987)
• Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn. · 564 U.S. 786 (2011)
• Jenkins v. Georgia · 418 U.S. 153 (1974)
• Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union · 535 U.S. 564 (2002)
• Denver Area Educational Telecommunications Consortium, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission · 518 U.S. 727 (1996)
• Byrne v. Karalexis · 401 U.S. 216 (1971)

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