People v. . Dunn’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently January 1970 · most notably Fay v. People of State of New York Bove (1947), St. John v. Andrews Institute for Girls (1908)
60 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 Wynehamer v. . the People · Stokes v. . People of the State of N.Y. · 10 E.H. Smith 541 - People v. . Sickles · Ferguson v. . Ross · Conabeer v. . N.Y. Central H.R.R.R. Co.
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is nothing in this act to limit its general application in all cases where the population of the county has attained a certain size, and such a condition might reasonably be considered as possible generally.””
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.