State v. Padilla’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably State v. Cabezuela (2011), State v. Gallegos (2011)
78 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on City of Canton v. Harris · Hudson v. Michigan · Crooks v. Harrelson · State Ex Rel. Helman v. Gallegos · State v. Smith
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Resisting, evading or obstructing an officer consists of ... willfully refusing to bring a vehicle to a stop when given a visual or audible signal to stop, whether by hand, voice, emergency light, flashing light, siren or other signal, by a uniformed officer in an appropriately marked police vehicle[.] ... Whoever commits resisting, evading or obstructing an officer is guilty of a misdemeanor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vest“When interpreting statutes, ... [the Courts'] responsibility is to search for and give effect to the intent of the [L]egislature. ... Our understanding of legislative intent is based primarily on the language of the statute, and we will first consider and apply the plain meaning of such language.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he legislative decision to create the crime of aggravated fleeing suggests a hierarchy of criminal liability based on the aggravated nature of a defendant's conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vest
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.