135 Ga. App. 739 - Hudson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Wilson v. Attaway (1985), 16 Cal. App. 4th 961 - People v. Quiroga (1993)
9 federal appellate · 40 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 Harrison v. State · 133 Ga. App. 256 - Ratliff v. State · 127 Ga. App. 511 - Hise v. State · 83 Ga. App. 151 - Troup v. State
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he [misdemeanor obstruction] statute was made purposefully broad to cover actions which might not be otherwise unlawful, but which obstructed or hindered law enforcement officers in carrying out their duties. This does not, however, make any actions which incidentally hinder an officer a crime. . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] person who knowingly and willfully obstructs or hinders any law enforcement officer in the lawful discharge of his official duties is guilty of a misdemeanor.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“could hinder an officer while he was attempting to carry out his duties of serving a warrant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.