Legal Opinion
People Ex Rel. Difanis v. Futia
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided February 7, 1978No. 14566PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE MILLS
delivered the opinion of the court:
“* * * the task of trying to define what may be indefinable. * * * hard-core pornography. I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it * * —Mr. Justice Stewart, concurring, Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964), 378 U.S. 184, 197, 12 L. Ed. 2d 793, 803-804, 84 S. Ct. 1676.
A seemy matter — the libidinous, the salacious.
Yet as vapid and offensive as the subject matter before…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- Jacobellis v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- People Ex Rel. General Motors Corp. v. BuaIllinois Supreme Court · 1967
- Buehler v. WhalenIllinois Supreme Court · 1978
- Wintersteen v. National Cooperage & Woodenware Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1935
- People v. JacksonIllinois Supreme Court · 1977
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3Cited by27 opinions
- Village of Wilsonville v. SCA Services, Inc.Illinois Supreme Court · 1981
- Cedric Spring & Associates, Inc. v. N.E.I. Corp.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1980
- Owens v. SnyderAppellate Court of Illinois · 2004
- Rhodes v. Mill Race Inn, Inc.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1984
- City of Chicago v. Festival Theatre Corp.Illinois Supreme Court · 1982
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