Dunn v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably Britt v. Com. (2008), State v. Gartner (2002)
35 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 Wright v. Commonwealth · Gertler v. Bowling
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“based only upon speculation and conjecture ... cannot be permitted to stand”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The value of the stolen property is measured as of the time of the theft, and the original purchase price may be admitted as evidence of its current value. The opinion testimony of the owner of the stolen item generally is competent and admissible on the issue of the value of that property.”
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.