Dorman v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
435 F.2d 385 · 1970
Citation profile
324 federal appellate · 33 district · 303 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 752 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Payton v. New York (1980), Coolidge v. New Hampshire (1971)
324 federal appellate · 33 district · 303 state decisions — followed in 38 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3041
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Chapman v. State of California · Wong Sun v. United States · Katz v. United States · United States v. Wade
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 752 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the gravity or violent nature of the offense with which the suspect is to be charged; (2) whether the suspect “is reasonably believed to be armed”; (3) “a clear showing of probable cause ... to believe that the suspect committed the crime”; (4) “strong reason to believe that the suspect is in the premises being entered”; (5) “a likelihood that the suspect will escape if not swiftly apprehended”; and (6) the peaceful circumstances of the entry.”
87 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] greater burden is placed . . . on officials who enter a home or dwelling without consent. Freedom from intrusion into the home or dwelling is the archetype of the privacy protection secured by the Fourth Amendment.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . the constitutional safeguard that, with room for exceptions, assures citizens the privacy and security of their homes unless a judicial officer determines that it must be overriden, is applicable, not only in case of entry to search for property, but also in case of entry in order to arrest a suspect.” 435 F.2d at 390 .”
6 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.