Dunn v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
307 F.2d 883 · 1962
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 1 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Shaw (1983), United States v. Morris (1978)
79 federal appellate · 1 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Handford v. United States · Ginsberg v. United States · Nalls v. United States · Taliaferro v. United States
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[I]f you throw a skunk into the jury box, you can't instruct the jury not to smell it'”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A United States district attorney carries a double burden. He owes an obligation to the government, just as any attorney owes an obligation to his client, to conduct his case zealously. But he must remember also that he is the representative of a government dedicated to fairness and equal justice to all and, in this respect, he owes a heavy obligation to the accused. Such representation imposes an overriding obligation of fairness so important that Anglo-American criminal law rests on the foundation: - better the guilty escape than the innocent suffer.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is improper for counsel to express his personal opinion or to state facts of his own knowledge, not in evidence, and not a part of the evidence to be presented.””
2 later decisions 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.