State v. Camillo’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 1 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A person commits an offense if he purposely obstructs, impairs or perverts the administration of law or other governmental function or prevents or attempts to prevent a public servant from lawfully performing an official function by means of flight, intimidation, force, violence, or physical interference or obstacle, or by means of any independently unlawful act. This section does not apply to failure to perform a legal duty other than an official duty, or any other means of avoiding compliance with law without affirmative interference with governmental functions.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State of New Jersey v. Michael Richard Powers · 799 F. Supp. 2d 417 - Trafton v. City of Woodbury

2. “to prohibit a broad range of behavior designed to impede or defeat the lawful operation of government,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State of New Jersey v. Michael Richard Powers

3. “may, in fact, have in a real sense obstructed the trooper from preparing his report”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State of New Jersey v. Michael Richard Powers