Lofton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
33
cited by 33 later decisions
1
states following
December 2016
most recently cited
33 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wesbrook v. State · Rousseau v. State · Saunders v. State · Arevalo v. State · Jones v. State
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]ven if appellant by his actions has intended to prevent the arrest, this does not negate the evidence that his chosen method of doing so was to assault the arresting officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[f]rom the evidence before it, the jury could have rationally believed that appellant intended to obstruct the arrest and the force he used was incident to that intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“at the very least, recklessly caused [the police officer] to suffer a bodily injury.”
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.