United States v. Dunloy’s Empirical Analysis
584 F.2d 6 · 1978
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably United States v. Young (1984), United States v. Christine (1982)
39 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 812 (§ 202 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co.
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the remedy with respect to any items exceeding the scope of the warrant [is not] invalidation of the search but suppression of those items.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“breadth of the warrant's language was tempered by the extremely confined area authorized to be searched”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a quantity of cocaine, and additionally, all narcotic drug controlled substance, documents, records and other evidence of distribution and possession with intent to distribute narcotic drug controlled substances”
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.