State v. Crawley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 district · 39 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “prevents or attempts to prevent a public servant from lawfully performing an official function by means of flight, intimidation, force, violence, or physical interference or obstacle, or by means of any independently unlawful act.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Williams · State v. Evan Reece (073284)

2. “[a] police officer who reasonably relies on information from headquarters in responding to an emergency or public safety threat may be said to be acting in good faith under the [obstruction] statute.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Williams · State v. Evan Reece (073284)

3. “Statutes are considered to be in pari materia when they relate to the same person or thing, to the same class of persons or things, or have the same purpose or object.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Marino v. Marino · 407 N.J. Super. 317 - In Re Jd