United States v. DeCosta’s Empirical Analysis
37 F.3d 5 · 1994
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably United States v. Grandmaison (1996), United States v. Montoya (1995)
17 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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. § 2252 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553
Relies on United States v. Rivera · United States v. Pierro · United States v. Gifford · United States v. Studley
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that it has considered the mitigating factors urged but does not find them sufficiently unusual to warrant a departure in the case at hand.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]hild pornography is not a victimless crime”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if a district court desired to depart but thought this course forbidden by explicit guideline language, one would expect the court to cast its refusal in these terms”
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.