Finally, in 1957, the Supreme Court ruled in "Roth v. United States", that the "Hicklin" test was inappropriate. In "Roth", Justice Brennan, writing for the majority, noted that some American courts had adopted the Hicklin standard, but that later decisions more commonly relied upon the question of "whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest." This "Roth test" became essentially the new definition of obscenity in the United States.