191 N.C. App. 485 - State v. Sinclair’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably State v. Blake (2021), 234 N.C. App. 736 - State v. Cottrell (2014)
25 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 Florida v. Bostick · California v. Hodari D. · Michigan v. Chesternut · State v. Powell · Modjeski & Masters, Applicant, V
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) that the victim was a public officer; 2) that the defendant knew or had reasonable grounds to believe that the victim was a public officer; 3) that the victim was discharging or attempting to discharge a duty of his office; 4) that the defendant resisted, delayed, or obstructed the victim in discharging or attempting to discharge a duty of his office; and 5) that the defendant acted willfully and unlawfully, that is intentionally and without justification or excuse.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]f any person shall willfully and unlawfully resist, delay or obstruct a public officer in discharging or attempting to discharge a duty of his office, he shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“stopped ten or twelve feet from [the officer], `quickly shoved both of his hands in his front pockets and then removed them,' ... made his hands into fists and took a defensive stance.”
3 later decisions 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.