Guevara v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) a person (2) intentionally (3) prevents or obstructs a person he knows is a peace officer (or a person acting in a peace officer’s presence or at his direction) from effecting an arrest of the actor or another (4) by using force against the peace officer or another.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Boughton v. State · Barnett v. State

2. “"did unlawfully then and there intentionally obstruct and prevent the arrest of Johnny Jones by use of force against J. M. Smith, who (sic) the said defendant knew to be a peace officer, by striking the said J. M. Smith."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jones v. State

3. “"Words used in a statute to define an offense need not be strictly pursued in the indictment; it is sufficient to use other words conveying the same meaning, or which include the sense of the statutory words."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Jones v. State