State v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1987
21 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 State v. Welch · Armstrong v. Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railroad
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As to what constitutes an opposition to the execution of a warrant or resistance of an officer, the jury are charged that any act willfully done with intent to deter or prevent any officer from the performance of his duty, and prevent him in making the arrest, would come .within the meaning of the statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dunnington““If an officer is deterred from making the arrest by the mere announcement of an intention not to be arrested, he may be said to have been dissuaded, but cannot be said to have been actually opposed or resisted; and the statute provides only for the latter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dunnington“It is not necessary for him (the officer attempting to arrest the defendant) to proceed to the length of a personal conflict with the defendant; for that would constitute a distinct offense in the defendant , even though the officer should succeed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hollman
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.