United States v. Hockings’s Empirical Analysis
129 F.3d 1069 · 1997
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Anant Ram v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (2001), United States v. Daas (1999)
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
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. § 2256
Relies on United States v. Lanier · Northwest Forest Resource Council v. Glickman · United States v. Woodley · United States v. Smith · Hawkins v. United States
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“look first to the plain language of the statute, construing the provisions of the entire law, including its object and policy, to ascertain the intent of Congress.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the exclusion of unprocessed film . . . would allow unrestricted interstate commerce in child pornography so long as the pornography was still in the form of undeveloped film”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress may amend a statute simply to clarify existing law, to correct a misinterpretation, or to overrule wrongly decided cases,”
1 later decision 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.