Dunfee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2002
13 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 Ker v. State of California · Patrick v. State · Edwards v. State · Tatman v. State · Mezzatesta 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Tatman v. State, Del.Supr., 320 A.2d 750 (1974), we fully discussed the “knock and announce” rule and its purposes; we recognized that noncompliance with the rule may be justified by a good faith belief on the part of the police officers that “full and complete compliance with the rule would have increased their peril, frustrated the arrest, or permitted destruction of evidence.” 320 A.2d at 751 . In determining whether any of these “exigent circumstances” existed, “we may concern ourselves only with what the officers had reason to believe at the time of entry.” Ker v. California, 374 U.S. 23 , 83 S.Ct. 1623 , 10 L.Ed.2d 726 (1963); see also Patrick v. State, Del.Supr., 227 A.2d 486 (1967). 346 A.2d at 176 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Potts v. State
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.