State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[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.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Sutton

2. “[T]he reasonableness of the officer's grounds to believe the defendant had committed a misdemeanor in the officer's presence, when properly raised, is a factual question to be decided by the jury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Sutton

3. “[i]t is not error for the trial court to not instruct the jury on the question of the lawfulness of the arrest if the evidence does not support such an instruction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Sutton