State v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 district · 28 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(a) Obstructing legal process or official duty is knowingly and intentionally obstructing, resisting or opposing any person authorized by law to serve process in the service or execution or in the attempt to serve or execute any writ, warrant, process or order of a court, or in the discharge of official duty.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McCormick v. City of Lawrence, Kansas · 271 F. Supp. 2d 1292 - McCormick v. City of Lawrence

2. ““the State was required to prove that an identified law enforcement officer was carrying out some official duty, and that each defendant knowingly and willfully obstructed or opposed that officer in the performance of that duty. The State was also required to show that each defendant knew or should have known that the person he opposed was a law enforcement officer. [Citation omitted.]” State v. Parker, 236 Kan. 353, 364-65 , 690 P.2d 1353 (1984).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. McCoy

3. ““The statute does not limit the offense to resistance alone. It includes also willful acts of obstruction or opposition, and to obstruct is to interpose obstacles or impediments, to hinder, impede or in any manner interrupt or prevent, and this term does not necessarily imply the employment of direct force, or the exercise of direct means. It includes any passive, indirect or circuitous impediments to the service or execution of process[.]””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Beltran