United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
459 F.3d 1276 · 2006
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 204 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably United States v. Edouard (2007), United States v. Caraballo (2010)
63 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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) · 18 U.S.C. § 2251A · 18 U.S.C. § 2252A (§ 101 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 2256 · 18 U.S.C. § 3583 · 18 U.S.C. § 4041 · 18 U.S.C. § 4042 (Prison Camera Reform Act of 2021) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Carroll v. United States · Simmons v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Neil v. Biggers
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 204 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“broad discretion to admit evidence if it has any tendency to prove or disprove a fact in issue.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Any person who employs, uses, persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any minor to engage in ... any sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of pro ducing any visual depiction of such conduct ... shall be punished as provided under subsection (e), ... if that visual depiction was produced or transmitted using materials that have been mailed, shipped, or transported in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce by any means....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Section 2252A(a)(2)(B) provides that any person who knowingly receives or distributes any material that contains child pornography that has been mailed, or using any means or facility of interstate or foreign commerce shipped or transported in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce by any means, including by computer [is subject to criminal prosecution].”
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.