United States v. Postel’s Empirical Analysis

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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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Defendant also intended to traffic in child pornography and distribute child pornography to others by offering his collection of child pornography to the public on the Internet via the LimeWire computer program. Defendant ran LimeWire on his computer and had child pornography in his shared folder. By placing child pornography in his shared folder and by running LimeWire, Defendant intended to barter his images of child pornography in the expectation that he would receive other LimeWire users’ images of child pornography. Indeed, Defendant admitted that he used LimeWire to obtain some of his child pornography. Therefore, Defendant intended to traffic in and distribute child pornography.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 650 F. Supp. 2d 849 - United States v. Bastian

2. ““Distribution” is defined as any act, including possession with intent to distribute, production, advertisement, and transportation, related to the transfer of material involving the sexual exploitation of a minor. Accordingly, distribution includes posting material involving the sexual exploitation of a minor on a website for public viewing but does not include the mere solicitation of such material by a defendant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Kruse