United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
376 F.3d 689 · 2004
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably State v. Ariegwe (2007), United States v. Scott (2010)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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. § 2251 (Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996)
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Morissette v. United States · New York v. Ferber · Ashcroft Attorney General v. Free Speech Coalition · United States v. X-Citement Video, Inc.
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.
“In addition to allowing users to view text and images on web pages, the Internet allows users to converse with one another in real time. One method of doing so is through a “chat room.” A chat room is a meeting place for Internet users. Users typically log into a chat room under a pseudonym or “screen name.” Chat rooms are usually organized around topics of interest to users including, for example, college football, the music of Bob Dylan, or gardening. Users can chat in the chat room itself, an open forum where all other users can read the messages as they are typed, or users can meet in the chat room and then chat privately.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lott“(a) Any person who ... persuades, induces, entices ... any minor to engage in ... any sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing any visual depiction of such conduct, shall be punished ... if such person knows or has reason to know that such visual depiction will be transported in interstate or foreign commerce or mailed, 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.... (d) Any individual who violates, or attempts or conspires to violate, this section shall be ... imprisoned....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an attempt requires that the defendant believe that the intended performer is a minor.”
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.