VELAZQUEZ-HERRERA’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Jean-Louis v. Attorney General of the United States (2009), Evanson v. Attorney General of United States (2008)
17 federal appellate ·
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. § 16 · 18 U.S.C. § 2422 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act)) · 18 U.S.C. § 3509 · 25 U.S.C. § 3202 · 42 U.S.C. § 13001A · 42 U.S.C. § 13031 · 42 U.S.C. § 13925 (§ 40002 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 42 U.S.C. § 3796A
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Taylor v. United States · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Shepard v. United States · Morissette v. United States
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It should be noted that, broad though the definition is, it is unclear whether it extends to crimes in which a child is merely placed or allowed to remain in a dangerous situation, without any element in the statute requiring ensuing harm, e.g., a general child endangerment statute, or selling liquor to an underage minor, or failing to secure a child with a seatbelt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the weight of Federal authority ... reflected an understanding that 'child abuse' encompassed the physical and mental injury, sexual abuse or exploitation, maltreatment, and negligent or neglectful treatment of a child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“crimes of child neglect or abandonment are a subset of 'child abuse' and, although technically redundant, were likely inserted by Congress to assure coverage of such crimes, however denominated by the State .”
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.