State v. Beamon’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “No operator of a vehicle, after having received a visible or audible signal to stop his or her vehicle from a traffic officer or marked police vehicle, shall knowingly resist the traffic officer by failing to stop his or her vehicle as promptly as safety reasonably permits.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Courtney C. Beamon · State v. Hanson

2. “the defendant knowingly fled or attempted to elude a traffic officer,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Courtney C. Beamon

3. “blast[ing] right through[] a four-way stop sign.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Courtney C. Beamon