206 Ga. App. 180 - Wagner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2018
21 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 Hess v. Indiana · 135 Ga. App. 739 - Hudson v. State · 163 Ga. App. 209 - Brown v. State · 190 Ga. App. 683 - Bailey v. State · 176 Ga. App. 113 - Carr 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Consequently, as an essential element of a prosecution for this offense, the State must prove that the officer was in the lawful discharge of his official duties at the time of the obstruction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“by physically resisting a lawful arrest,”
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.