Dunlavey v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Briley v. Commonwealth (1980), United States v. Barlow (1972)
10 federal appellate · 57 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 Vaughan v. Lytton · Strouther v. Commonwealth · Devine v. State · 7 Okla. Crim. 678 - Brown v. State · 21 Okla. Crim. 328 - Good v. State
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the wrongful or fraudulent taking of personal goods of some intrinsic value, belonging to another, without his assent, and with the intention to deprive the owner thereof permanently.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[Wjhere property has been feloniously taken, every act of removal or change of possession by the thief constitute^] a new taking and asportation; and, as the right of possession, as well as the right of property, continues in the owner, every such act is a new violation of the owner’s right of property and possession.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is being committed every moment of the time during which the thief deprives the owner of the stolen property or its possession.”
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.