State v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably State v. Burke (1987), State v. Wiltshire (1992)
69 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 Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Bloom v. Illinois · Ballew v. Georgia · State v. Michalski · State v. Schroder
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“commits the offense of obstructing a peace officer, when, by using or threatening to use violence, force, physical interference, or obstacle, he intentionally obstructs, impairs, or hinders the enforcement of the penal law or the preservation of the peace by a peace officer . . . acting under color of his official authority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“presumes the existence of a valid ordinance creating the offense,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lewis
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.