State v. Valentine’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 2018
16 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 Estelle v. Gamble · Gregg v. Georgia · Gerstein v. Pugh · United States v. Russell · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co.
Most-quoted passages
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“[4] to Valentine's neck. Valentine was eventually placed in handcuffs and was transported to jail. A nurse supervisor at the jail refused to admit Valentine because of his apparent injuries. Valentine was then taken to a hospital where Moore presented him with a citation for failing to signal for a turn. Valentine signed the citation. Valentine was later booked into the Spokane County Jail where he was charged by information with two counts of third degree assault, it being alleged that he assaulted Moore and Robinson while they were performing”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Valentine“The prisoners [the accused] in this case had sufficient provocation; for if one be imprisoned upon an unlawful authority, it is a sufficient provocation to all people out of compassion; much more where it is done under a colour of justice, and where the liberty of the subject is invaded, it is a provocation to all the subjects of England.... Constables have an authority by the statute to arrest persons, but that must be by warrant from the justices of the peace; but in this case there was no warrant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Valentine“the Tooley court spoke of was not the provocation of Mistress Dekins. It was the provocation of the three strangers at seeing someone unlawfully imprisoned, and whether that provocation provided sufficient reason to reduce their conviction from murder to manslaughter. Nevertheless, the Tooley rule has come down to us as a rule permitting an arrestee to use the necessary force (but no more) to resist an unlawful arrest. [8] To understand why an unlawful arrest was such a great provocation as to affect”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Valentine
How this case has been treated — in progress
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