172 W. Va. 706 - State v. Jarvis’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2019
13 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 State v. Merrifield · In re Culver · Alejos v. State · 155 Ga. App. 917 - Tankersley v. State · 134 W. Va. 357 - State v. Johnson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f his flight had not been illegal, there would not have been a violation of the statute. The statute only reaches conduct that unlaiojully hinders, obstructs or opposes an officer in the lawful exercise of his official duty. Courts in applying similar statutes have recognized that a person does not violate the law by doing what he has a lawful right to do, regardless of whether it obstructs or hinders a police officer.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he words `forcibly or illegally' used in the statute clearly mean any unlawful interference with the officer in the discharge of his official duties, whether or not force be actually present.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a person does not unlawfully hinder an officer by simply questioning [the arresting officer].”
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.