United States v. Dunbar’s Empirical Analysis
611 F.2d 985 · 1980
Citation profile
110 federal appellate · 7 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 163 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably United States v. Phillips (1981), United States v. Martino (1981)
110 federal appellate · 7 district · 8 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
Relies on Abney v. United States · Coppedge v. United States · Keeble v. United States · Avis Rent A Car System, Inc. v. City of Chicago · Gilliam 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 163 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'notice of appeal from a nonappealable order does not render void for lack of jurisdiction acts of the trial court taken in the interval between the filing of the notice and the dismissal of the appeal.'”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an appeal from the denial of a double jeopardy motion does not divest the district court of jurisdiction to proceed with trial, if the district court has found the motion to be frivolous .... [B]oth the district court and court of appeals shall have jurisdiction to proceed. Thus the defendant is entitled ultimately to appellate review.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If an appeal from a motion decided to be frivolous by the district court is found meritorious by the appellate court, the conviction in the district court would be reversed. If found not to have merit, jurisdiction for the trial which occurred during the appeal would be affirmed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.