United States v. Vincent’s Empirical Analysis
167 F.3d 428 · 1999
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably 207 Ill. 2d 231 - People v. Lampitok (2003), United States v. Butler (2000)
22 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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
Relies on Morrissey v. Brewer · Mistretta v. United States · New York v. Ferber · New Jersey v. T. L. O. · Stanley v. Georgia
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[g]iven Congress's supervisory role, the Sentencing Commission's formulation of the Guidelines is not subject to judicial review unless the Commission oversteps constitutional bounds.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Internet has become a common means of transmitting obscene and illicit material . . . [which] is difficult to detect . . . in cyberspace.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“provides an extra deterrent to those inclined to pursue illicit pictures in the anonymity of the computer world.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.