United States v. Dunavan’s Empirical Analysis
485 F.2d 201 · 1973
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Richardson v. Bonds (1988), United States of America v. Hector Morales Cervantes C (2000)
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 11 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. § 2113
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Johnson v. United States · 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as a matter of rendering emergency aid to a person in a seizure,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n dealing with a Fourth Amendment issue, the validity of an arrest is to be judged by whether the arresting officers actually had probable cause for the arrest rather than by whether the officers gave the arrested person the right reason.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. People v. Davis
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.