State v. Sanchez’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2005
18 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 Tennessee v. Garner · State v. White · State v. Newman · State v. Sanders · Bey 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is evidence that the legislature may never have intended these escape statutes to criminalize flight prior to arrest. The Arizona Criminal Code Commission proposed a set of escape statutes quite similar to those adopted by our legislature. In their commentary, the Criminal Code Commission writers noted: Neither [nonviolent] nonsubmission nor flight are covered by these sections [resisting arrest and escape]. The proper course in such a case is to pursue or use reasonable force to overcome the suspect. Arizona Criminal Code Commission, Arizona Revised Criminal Code, p. 238 (1975).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Womack“We read “constructive restraint” to mean those situations where the arrest has already occurred, the process of taking the arrestee to police station or judge commenced, and the suspect flees. In this context, the suspect is under no actual restraint, but, for the purposes of the escape statute, should be considered under “constructive restraint.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sanchez“[wjhether a person can be in custody, and thereafter commit escape, without ever having been technically arrested— without having been under actual restraint of the officer or having submitted to the officer’s authority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sanchez
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.