United States v. William Joseph Wolf

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that “the photographer need not portray the victimized child as a temptress”
• noting that “lasciviousness is not a characteristic of the child photographed but of the exhibition that the photographer sets up for an audience that consists of himself or like- minded individuals.”
• requiring a child “to exhibit lust, wantonness, sexual coyness or other inappropriate precocity” “would pervert both the 36 language and the logic of the [child pornography] legislation and the case law”
• “[T]he Ninth [C]ircuit clearly stated that to violate 18 U.S.C. § 2251 the photographer need not portray the victimized child as a temptress.”
• child was asleep when photographs were taken
• par- tially nude and sleeping minor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

62 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United States v. Stephen A. Knox
  Third Circuit· 1994-06-09· cited 163×
• United States v. Mervyn Harold Cross A/K/A Eric Cross, and Robert Carter Lodge
  Eleventh Circuit· 1991-04-16· cited 148×
• United States v. Amirault
  First Circuit· 1999-04-06· cited 121×
• United States v. Roderick
  Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces· 2006-03-08· cited 117×
• United States v. Overton
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-07-14· cited 110×
• United States v. Rivera
  Second Circuit· 2008-10-15· cited 104×
• United States v. Brown
  Sixth Circuit· 2009-08-26· cited 104×
• United States v. Frabizio
  First Circuit· 2006-08-16· cited 88×
• American Library Association, Appellants/cross-Appellees v. William P. Barr, Attorney General of the United States, Appellees/cross-Appellants
  D.C. Circuit· 1992-02-19· cited 88×
• People v. Lamborn
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1999-02-19· cited 81×
• United States v. Melvin Hubert Holmes
  Eleventh Circuit· 2016-02-25· cited 65×
• United States v. Johnson
  Eighth Circuit· 2011-04-05· cited 61×
• People v. Kongs
  California Court of Appeal· 1994-12-21· cited 60×
• United States v. Isabella
  Tenth Circuit· 2019-03-12· cited 58×
• United States v. Lamb
  N.D. New York· 1996-11-05· cited 57×
• Alexander v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1995-08-03· cited 56×
• United States v. Craig Finley
  Third Circuit· 2013-08-12· cited 53×
• Purcell v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-11-18· cited 50×
• State v. Bagnes
  Utah Supreme Court· 2014-02-07· cited 48×
• State v. Morrison
  Utah Supreme Court· 2001-08-21· cited 45×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miller v. California
  Supreme Court· 1973-10-09· cited 3,038×
• New York v. Ferber
  Supreme Court· 1982-07-02· cited 2,505×
• United States v. Dost
  S.D. California· 1986-06-12· cited 359×
• United States v. Edwin E. Wiegand
  Ninth Circuit· 1987-03-18· cited 269×
• United States v. William Esch, United States of America v. Linda Esch
  Tenth Circuit· 1988-01-04· cited 112×
• Chase Revel, Inc. v. Straw
  Supreme Court· 1987-10-05· cited 83×
• Ferris v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1988-02-29· cited 60×
• United States v. Edward F. Nolan, Jr.
  First Circuit· 1987-05-14· cited 47×
• Ross v. Zimmerman
  Supreme Court· 1988-02-29· cited 47×
• United States v. James I. Freeman, United States of America v. Larry Lee Bass
  Eighth Circuit· 1987-03-09· cited 28×
• United States v. Calvin Dean Reedy
  Tenth Circuit· 1988-04-26· cited 24×