The Hicklin case--1867
British anti-Catholic publication called “The Confessional Unmasked; Shewing the Depravity of the Roman Priesthood, the Iniquity of the Confessional, and the Questions put to Females in Confession”
The Hicklin Rule--“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.”
1896--Rosen v. US upholds the Comstock Act and applies Hicklin Rule in the US