United States v. Ketcham’s Empirical Analysis
80 F.3d 789 · 1996
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably United States v. Rahman (1999), United States of America v. Rafael Baron-Medina (1999)
41 federal appellate · 1 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. § 2252 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553
Relies on United States v. Rugh · United States v. Toler · United States v. Chapman · United States v. Bush
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his is not a statute where there is no identifiable victim. The fact that a criminal statute in a general sense protects society as a whole cannot suffice to make society the primary victim. Were this the case, society would be the primary victim of nearly every criminal statute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`victim' is not intended to include indirect or secondary victims....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[s]exual abuse or exploitation' does not include trafficking in material relating to the sexual abuse or exploitation of a minor.”
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.