State v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a] person commits the crime of resisting arrest if the person intentionally resists a person known by the person to be a peace officer in making an arrest”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Mills v. State

2. “does not focus on the potential of harm to the individual officers attempting to make the arrest, but rather on the threat to civil order,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Mills v. State