State v. Rendleman’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably State v. Myers (2009), State v. Smith (2008)
2 district · 50 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
Relies on United States v. O'Brien · Roth v. United States · Miller v. California · New York v. Ferber · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the focus is on the genital or pubic area; (2) the setting is sexually suggestive; (3) the child is depicted in an unnatural pose, or in inappropriate attire, considering the child’s age; (4) the child is fully or partially clothed; (5) the depiction suggests sexual coyness or a willingness to engage in sexual activity; and (6) the depiction is designed to elicit a sexual response in the viewer.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Myers · State v. Myers“[0]n a pretrial motion to dismiss charges alleging the sexual exploitation of children, the district court may dismiss the charges where, on the undisputed face of the materials before the court, a jury could not find beyond a reasonable doubt that the material meets the elements of the offense as defined by the [Sexual Exploitation of Children] Act. Under these limited circumstances, no practical purpose would be served by a trial on the merits, and dismissal is therefore an appropriate and effective means of promoting judicial efficiency in light of the dis-positive issue before the district court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Myers · State v. Myers“Under an objective standard, the central question is whether, based on the overall content of the photograph, a reasonable person could find the photograph was intended to elicit a sexual response. Application of an objective standard requires courts to focus on the photograph itself, and not on the circumstances surrounding the taking of the photograph. In short, the pictures speak for themselves.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Myers · State v. Myers
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.