United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
367 F.3d 748 · 2004
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2023
8 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. § 2251 (Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. Rezin · United States v. Pherigo · United States v. Galo · United States v. Barrow · United States v. Aguilar-Lopez
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]y its very nature, any criminal sexual conduct with a child takes advantage of, or exploits, [the] child sexually.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unambiguously refers to any criminal sexual conduct with a child”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“relating to the sexual exploitation of children”
1 later decision 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.