State v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2016
1 district · 12 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. Curry · Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. Louisiana · State v. Weleck · 2 Cal. 2d 527 - People v. Miller · State v. Harvill
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) an intention on the part of the arresting officer “then and there to make the arrest” “under a real or pretended authority”; (2) a communication of that intention by the arresting officer to the one whose arrest is sought; (3) an understanding of that intention by the person who is to be arrested; and (4) “the actual or constructive seizure or detention of the person to be arrested by the one having the present power to control him.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"It is true that merely saying to a person— you are under arrest — without an effective physical restraint of the person concomitant with the proclamation will not constitute an arrest of the person. On the other hand, these same words — you are under arrest — are sufficient to effect an arrest of the person, if the person to be arrested is in the presence and power of ffie officer and in consequence of the communication submits to the officer’s restraint. In this latter instance, however, if, instead of submitting, the person flees from the officer, there would be no arrest until the officer had laid hold of the person.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Daley · People v. Thornton“[t]he overt act must in the eyes of the actor be adapted to or suitable for the purpose and must have reached far enough toward the accomplishment of the desired result that in the ordinary and likely course of things, given the contemporaneous intent to consummate the criminal act, the perpetrator would be in a direct unequivocal movement toward the commission of the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. West
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.