State v. Ravell’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2024
19 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Bell v. United States · United States v. Ursery · Hudson v. United States · Sanabria v. United States · Smith v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any visual representation of a child engaging in sexual activity,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reeves · Pontius v. State“Where, as here, a defendant asserts a double jeopardy violation, arguing that he is being punished multiple times under the same statute for the same offense, courts must inquire what 'unit of prosecution' was intended by the legislature as the punishable act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Sambath Pal“without regard for the volume of child pornography and the number of separate volitional acts required to obtain and store it” (internal quotations omitted); finding that the language allowed a unit of prosecution for”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Liberty
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.