Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart is responsible for the most famous line in the history of unsatisfying definitions. In 1964’s Jacobellis v. Ohio, he said the following in determining whether some material constituted hardcore 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.”

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