Armstead v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2018
15 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 Blockburger v. United States · Williams v. State · Shepler v. State · Jones v. State · Spears 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“: A person who violates Ind.Code § 35-44-3-3 harms the peace and dignity of the State of Indiana and its law enforcement authority. The harm caused by one incident is the same regardless of the number of police officers resisted. It is the act of resisting duly constituted authority which the statute prohibits, not resisting individual representatives of that authority. Id. As explained above, this argument appears to be based on the erroneous premise Patton was charged and convicted under the”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[wihen a defendant harms a single entity as a result of a single incident ... he should be answerable for the greatest harm stemming from that single incident.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. May v. State · Sanders v. State“inflicts bodily injury on another person”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State · Whaley v. State
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.