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← 406 NW2D 681 - State v. Kunkel

State v. Kunkel’s Empirical Analysis

1987

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
February 1997
most recently cited

1 district · 4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Matlock · Commonwealth v. Saia · 55 Or. App. 712 - State v. Burger · State v. Boilard · State v. Indvik

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Regardless of Kunkel’s belief that the police were wrongfully in his room, his attack was not the proper way to challenge their conduct. In our system law and order may sometimes interfere with an individual’s rights. We do not intend to legitimize police misconduct, but only to emphasize that a procedure is available to rectify any injustice done by such misconduct.... In essence, the proper forum for the resolution of the propriety of the officers’ action was in a courtroom by a judge, not via an attack....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.