28 Cal. 4th 396 - People v. Cochran’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
70 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1605 (§ 4 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976)
Relies on Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union · 21 Cal. 4th 86 - People v. Jefferson · 13 Cal. 4th 590 - People v. Valladoli · Siderman Blake v. Republic of Argentina Sa · Jordan v. Tashiro
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Every person who, with knowledge that a person is a minor under the age of 18 years, or who, while in possession of any facts on the basis of which he or she should reasonably know that the person is a minor under the age of 18 years, knowingly promotes, employs, uses, persuades, induces, or coerces a minor under the age of 18 years, or any parent or guardian of a minor under the age of 18 years under his or her control who knowingly permits the minor, to engage in or assist others to engage in either posing or modeling alone or with others for purposes of preparing any representation of information, data, or image, including, but not limited to, any film, filmstrip, photograph, negative, slide, photocopy, videotape, video laser disc, computer hardware, computer software, computer floppy disc, data storage media, CD-ROM, or computer-generated equipment or any other computer-generated image that contains or incorporates in any manner, any film, filmstrip, or a live performance involving, sexual conduct by a minor under the age of 18 years alone or with other persons or animals, for commercial purposes, is guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years." (Italics added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“meant what it said, and [do] not resort to legislative history to determine the statute's true meaning.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Enacted in 1961, section 311.4 is part of a statutory scheme '”
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.