State v. Alinas’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2025
12 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. § 2256
Relies on Miller v. California · New York v. Ferber · Ashcroft Attorney General v. Free Speech Coalition · United States v. Craft · Holmes Group, Inc. v. Vornado Air Circulation Systems, Inc.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts have generally held that the jury themselves, through visual examination, are capable of making the determination whether the children depicted are under eighteen years of age.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jordan“Unless a party objects to an instruction or the failure to give an instruction, the instruction may not be assigned as error except to avoid a manifest injustice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson“the visual depiction of nudity or partial nudity for the purpose of causing sexual arousal of any person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jordan
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.