State v. Dunlap’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2018
19 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 Katz v. United States · Johnson v. United States · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · McDonald v. United States · United States v. Jeffers
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A claim of exigent circumstances ... must be evaluated in terms of the time when the law enforcement authorities first had an opportunity to obtain a search warrant ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Patten · State v. Palmer“the warrant requirement may be constitutionally dispensed with if there are exigent circumstances which demand immediate search and seizure, or both, to prevent likelihood of removal, concealment, destruction or other loss of the articles lawfully subject to seizure, provided, of course, that the search and seizure is limited as to the method, place and time to be commensurate with such exigency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Patten“is not diminished because in hindsight it appears that a search warrant could have been obtained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Martin
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.