53 Wash. App. 502 - State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2010
11 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
Relies on New York v. Ferber · Stanley v. Georgia · Bowers v. Hardwick · United States v. Owens · Hagemann v. American Savings & Loan Ass'n
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse of children constitutes a government objective of surpassing importance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Ohio’s compelling state interests of preserving its childrens’ privacy and protecting them from the cruel physiological, mental, and emotional abuse caused by sexual seduction, exploitation, and mistreatment occasioned by child pornography, outweigh appellee’s interest in possessing such visual depictions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Emond“[T]he prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse of children constitutes a government objective of surpassing importance. The care of children is a sacred trust and should not be abused by those who seek commercial gain or personal gratification based on the exploitation of children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ehli
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.