United States v. Wind’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

30 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “because the Guidelines take into account the gravity of a possession offense as compared with more serious forms of exploitation, Wind is not entitled to a downward departure on the ground that he did not commit, or have the tendency to commit, a worse crime.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Stevens · United States of America v. John Stephen Grosenheider

2. “lack of sexual tendencies towards children does not make his possession of child pornography significantly different from the normal case of child pornography possession.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States of America v. Leonard Vanhouten

3. “the amount of child pornography possessed by Wind cannot be deemed less than typical for cases to which section 2G2.4 applies.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Fellows