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922 F.3d 1 · 2019

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
4
states following
May 2025
most recently cited

1 district · 4 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2252 · 18 U.S.C. § 2258A

Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Katz v. United States · Smith v. Maryland · United States v. Miller · McCoy v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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

  1. “is merely a string of numbers associated with a device that had, at one time, accessed a wireless network. And . . . an internet user generates the IP address data . . . only by making the affirmative decision to access a website or application.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[b]ut what he seeks to preserve as private, even in an area accessible to the public, may be constitutionally protected.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “information provided in the four corners of the affidavit supporting the warrant application.”
    1 later decision 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.