State v. Dabney’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably 47 Cal. 4th 1104 - People v. Robinson (2010), 4 Cal. 5th 658 - People v. Buza (2018)
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Powe v. City of Chicago · 131 Wis. 2d 220 - State v. Smith · 96 Wis. 2d 183 - John v. State · 149 Wis. 2d 878 - State v. Wilson · 73 Wis. 2d 448 - Walberg 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' "A genetic code describes a person with far greater precision than a physical description or a name.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“is not unique to a warrant based on DNA. No matter how well a warrant describes the individual, extrinsic information is commonly needed to execute it. If a name is given, information to link the name to the physical person must be acquired.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“case law suggests that the complaint and warrant satisfy the sufficiency standard when the description clearly demonstrates that the `law enforcement authorities had probable cause to suspect a particular person of committing a crime.' Powe v. City of Chicago, 664 F.2d 639, 646 (7th Cir. 1981).”
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.