People v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Fitzgerald v. State (2004), 202 Ill. 2d 462 - People v. Cox (2002)
56 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Unlike the Supreme Court, we believe that the fact that a given investigative procedure can disclose only evidence of criminality should have little bearing on whether it constitutes a search. Notwithstanding such a method’s discriminate and nonintrusive nature, it remains a way of detecting the contents of a private place.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Fitzgerald v. State“Notwithstanding such a method's discriminate and nonin-trusive nature, it remains a way of detecting the contents of a private place. Thus, our analysis should more appropriately focus on whether there has been an intrusion into an area where an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Miller“To hold [that a canine sniff is not a search], we believe would raise the specter of the police roaming indiscriminately through the corridors of public housing projects with trained dogs in search of drugs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Miller
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.