Spears v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2017
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 Willard v. State · 45 Ill. 2d 68 - The PEOPLE v. Thomas · 135 N.J. Super. 13 - Gudgeon v. County of Ocean · Mandina v. United States · 251 F. Supp. 526 - T. I. McCormack Trucking Co. v. United States
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sec. 3. (a) A person who knowingly or intentionally: (1) forcibly resists, obstructs, or interferes with a law enforcement officer or a person assisting the officer while the officer is lawfully engaged in the execution of his duties as an officer; (2) forcibly resists, obstructs, or interferes with the authorized service or execution of a civil or criminal process or order of a court; or (3) flees from a law enforcement officer after the officer has, by visible or audible means, identified himself and ordered the person to stop; commits resisting law enforcement, a Class A misdemeanor. However, the offense is a Class D felony if, while committing it, the person draws or uses a deadly weapon or inflicts bodily injury on another person.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Commas set off the modifying phrase 'by visible or audible means' . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.