State v. Myers’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably State v. Chavez (2009), State v. Myers (2011)
58 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. § 2251 (Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996)
Relies on Roth v. United States · Miller v. California · New York v. Ferber · Ashcroft Attorney General v. Free Speech Coalition · Mishkin v. State of New York
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The images therefore place the viewer in the position of a voyeur. This feeling of voyeurism is enhanced by the quality of the images, which are slightly unfocused and grainy, the perspective of the images, the victims are viewed from the floor adjacent to the toilet, and the shadows that border the images, which lend the sense that the viewer is peering at the female victims through a peep hole on the floor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Myers“[T]he reviewing court engages in a two-step process: First it reviews the evidence [resolving all conflicts and indulging all permissible inferences] with deference to the findings of the [trier of fact]; then it determines whether the evidence, viewed in this manner, could justify a finding by any rational trier of fact that each element of the crime charged has been established beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Chavez“The purpose of the Act is to protect children from the harm to the child that flows from trespasses against the child's dignity when treated as a sexual object.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gwynne
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.