United States v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis
779 F.2d 157 · 1985
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably United States v. Hurtado (1995), United States v. Han (2000)
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Gotthelf v. Commissioner · Mahan v. Howell · Cogdell v. United States · United States v. Sherman
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“soliciting, proposing, initiating, broaching or suggesting the commission of the offense charged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“soliciting, proposing, initiating, broaching or suggesting the commission of the offense charged constitutes inducement. Inducement refers to the government's initiation of the crime and not to the degree of pressure exerted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. United States v. Han
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.