The Supreme Court, of the corporate United states, hands down Rosen v. United states, adopting the standard of Regina v. Hicklin–a United Kingdom case from 1868 that has no precedential relevance to U.s. jurisprudence–in determining whether a publication should be banned as obscene:

       … whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall.  Now, with regard to this work, it is quite certain that it would suggest to the minds of the young of either sex, or even to persons of more advanced years, thoughts of a most impure and libidinous character.

       NOTE:  Hicklin has no precedential relevance in U.s. law as it was decided in a foreign court, that of the United Kingdom.

       [updated 6/27/2024]