State v. McKinney’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably State v. Brim (2010), State v. McKinney (2005)
30 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 Harmelin v. Michigan · New York v. Ferber · Whalen v. Roe · United States v. Watts · Osborne v. Ohio
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he sentencing judge may exercise wide discretion with respect to the type of information used as well as its source. He should have full access to the fullest information possible concerning the defendant’s life and characteristics. Information which should be available to the court includes general moral character, mentality, habits, social environment, tendencies, age, aversion or inclination to commit crime, life, family, occupation, and previous criminal record....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Thorsby“[T]he existence of and traffic in child pornographic images ... inflames the desires of child molesters, pedophiles, and child pornographers, thereby increasing the creation and distribution of child pornography and the sexual abuse and exploitation of actual children who are victimized as a result of the existence and use of these materials[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Dubois“[initially we review the sentencing court's decision under the abuse of discretion standard,” but”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Williams
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.