2004 Pa. Super. 396 - Commonwealth v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2023
22 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 Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Ashcroft Attorney General v. Free Speech Coalition · Commonwealth v. Widmer · Commonwealth v. Simmons · Commonwealth v. Anderson
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(d) Possession of child pornography. (1) Any person who knowingly possesses or controls any book, magazine, pamphlet, slide, photograph, film, videotape, computer depiction or other material depicting a child under the age of 18 years engaging in a prohibited sexual act or in the simulation of such act commits an offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]ach photograph of each child victimized that child and subjected him or her to precisely the type of harm the [applicable] statute seeks to prevent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“sexual intercourse . . ., masturbation, sadism, masochism, bestiality, fellatio, cunnilingus, lewd exhibition of the genitals or nudity . . .”
2 later decisions 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.