United States v. Griffith’s Empirical Analysis
284 F.3d 338 · 2002
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2022 · most notably Flores-Figueroa v. United States (2009), United States v. Brand (2006)
39 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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. § 21 (§ 320910 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 18 U.S.C. § 2251 (Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 2252 · 18 U.S.C. § 2421 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act)) · 18 U.S.C. § 2422 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act)) · 18 U.S.C. § 2423 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act)) · 18 U.S.C. § 3509 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Delaware v. Van Arsdall · United States v. Lopez · United States v. Morrison · United States v. X-Citement Video, Inc. · Maryland v. Wirtz
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who knowingly transports an individual who has not attained the age of 18 years in interstate ... commerce, ... with intent that the individual engage in prostitution, or in any sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense, shall be fined ... and imprisoned not less than 10 years or for life.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) Any person who employs, uses, persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any minor to engage in, or who has a minor assist any other person to engage in, or who transports any minor in interstate or foreign commerce, ... with the intent that such minor engage in, any sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing any visual depiction of such conduct, shall be punished as provided under subsection (d), [1] if such person knows or has reason to know that such visual depiction will be transported in interstate or foreign commerce or mailed, [2] if that visual depiction was produced using materials that have been mailed, shipped, or transported in interstate or foreign commerce by any means, including by computer, or [3] if such visual depiction has actually been transported in interstate or foreign commerce or mailed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Here, however, the conduct prohibited by § 2423(a) is already unlawful under § 2421, and a defendant is 'already on notice that he is committing a crime when he transports an individual of any age in interstate commerce for the purpose of prostitution.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.