Dancy v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
395 F.2d 636 · 1968
Citation profile
31
cited by 31 later decisions
4
states following
February 1976
most recently cited
16 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ross v. United States · Little v. Oregon · Powell v. United States · Woody v. United States · Morrison 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . We regarded Ross more as a challenge to the police than as a license — a challenge to exhibit some awareness of the very real dangers of misidentification lurking in the narcotics undercover agent practice, and to endeavor consciously to devise methods and procedures which would reduce those dangers as much as possible consistent with effective law enforcement.” (p. 638.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A conscious effort to engineer the undercover system in order to strengthen its reliability would undoubtedly turn up a number of useful devices not necessarily involving a shortening of the period of underground service. Multiple transactions can, for example, be very helpful in corroborating identification even if less than all become the basis of punishment.” 395 F.2d at 639, n. 3 .”
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.