State v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2002 · most notably State v. Williams (1959), Mattis v. Schnarr (1976)
4 federal appellate · 27 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 State v. Turlington · State v. Coleman · State v. McNally · State v. Dierberger · State v. Clayton
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under Missouri law an officer, when stopping a crime, making an arrest, or preventing an escape, may, defend himself/herself as may any other person who is assaulted; but the law does not stop there. The officer must of necessity be the aggressor; the officer’s mission is not accomplished when he/she wards off the assault. He/she must press forward and accomplish his/her objective. Because of the duties devolved upon the officer the law throws around him a special protection. His duty is to overcome all resistance, and bring the party to be arrested under physical restraint, and the means he/she may use must be such force as is reasonable [sic] necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Rogers v. Rulo““Homicide shall be deemed justifiable when committed by any person in either •of the following cases: (1) In resisting any attempt to murder such person, or to commit any felony upon him or her * * * ft”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McQueen““If, after notice of the intention to arrest the defendant, he either flee or forcibly resist, the officer may use all necessary means to effect the arrest." (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Walsh v. Oehlert
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.