Dunn v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
284 U.S. 390 · 1932
Citation profile
1,799 federal appellate · 106 district · 1,277 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,620 later decisions (38 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2025 · most notably Hamling v. United States (1974), United States v. Powell (1984)
1,799 federal appellate · 106 district · 1,277 state decisions — followed in 50 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Marron v. United States · Sparf v. United States · Horning v. District of Columbia
Cited together with United States v. Powell · United States v. Dotterweich · Glasser v. United States · Jackson v. Virginia · Harris v. Rivera
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 3,620 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That the verdict may have been the result of compromise, or of a mistake on the part of the jury, is possible. But verdicts cannot be upset by speculation or inquiry into such matters.”
162 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where there is a verdict of not guilty on one count and a verdict of guilt on another, and the former necessarily determines that the evidence failed to establish a fact which is an essential ingredient of the offense charged in the other count, then, in determining whether the evidence was sufficient to sustain the finding of guilt, the court must exclude from consideration the fact so found in favor of the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. People v. Strachan“The defendant says that the evidence did not warrant a conviction and that the verdict on the second and third counts is inconsistent with that upon the first and that for this reason also he is entitled to be discharged. The evidence was the same for all the counts.”
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.