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← 63 VACIR 216 - Commonwealth v. Simone

Commonwealth v. Simone’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
4
states following
March 2010
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2252A (§ 101 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 2256

Relies on Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Kolender v. Lawson · Malloy v. Hogan

Most-quoted passages

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  1. “In the present case the defendant did not testify, and no direct evidence was presented, as to whether he realized images he viewed were being saved to his cache file. "The quantum of evidence necessary to prove knowing possession was also addressed in United States v. Perez, 247 F.Supp.2d 459, 484, n. 12 (S.D.N.Y.2003), where the defendant moved to suppress evidence of child pornography obtained with a search warrant. In reviewing the federal child pornography statute, which prohibits the knowing possession of such images, that Court observed that, under the current state of federal law, `whether the statute reached mere internet "browsing”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.