United States v. Ellison’s Empirical Analysis
113 F.3d 77 · 1997
Citation profile
37 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably United States v. Horn (1999), United States of America v. Thomas C. Richardson (2001)
37 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2252 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2252 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Stinson v. United States · United States v. Sokolow · United States v. Mullens · United States v. Bigelow · United States v. Moore
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]ven the receipt of the prohibited materials for personal use, without more, keeps producers and distributors of this filth in business.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the offense involved material that portrays sadistic or masochistic conduct or other depictions of violence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“act[] committed . . . by the defendant . . . that occurred during the commission of the offense of conviction,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.