People v. Dinkel’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1997
17 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 21 U.S.C. § 802 (§ 102 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Sawyer · United States v. Wokkopich · People v. Grijalva · 15 Ill. 2d 494 - The PEOPLE v. Shannon · United States v. Masullo
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Dispense' means sale, delivery, giving away, or supplying in any other manner or otherwise disposing of, to any person, but also every other type of conduct related to the unauthorized traffic in drugs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Zuniga
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.