People v. Dunlap’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 110 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado v. Michael MILLER (2005), State v. Kleypas (2001)
2 federal appellate · 110 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · Kotteakos v. United States · Gregg v. Georgia
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“prior relevant rulings made in the same case are to be followed unless such application would result in error or unless the ruling is no longer sound due to changed conditions”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“calculated to inflame the passions or prejudice of the jury.”
3 later decisions 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.