United States v. Dunnigan’s Empirical Analysis
944 F.2d 178 · 1991
Citation profile
70 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2015 · most notably United States v. Dunnigan (1993), United States v. Carson (1993)
70 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · United States v. Debrow · United States v. Grayson
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an intolerable burden upon the defendant's right to testify in his own behalf.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that an innocent defendant with prior convictions must weigh the jury's likelihood of drawing one impermissible inference (guilt by silence) against another (guilt by propensity) in deciding whether to testify.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A defendant's denial of guilt (Other than a denial of guilt under oath that constitutes perjury) ... is not a basis for application of this provision.”
3 later decisions 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.