Commonwealth v. Katykhin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 14 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a] person commits the crime of resisting arrest if he knowingly prevents or attempts to prevent a police officer, acting under color of his official authority, from effecting an arrest ... by: (1) using or threatening to use physical force or violence against the police officer or another.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 95 Mass. App. Ct. 1113 - Commonwealth v. Jordan

2. “through physical movement did engage in an act of force ... by going with his body in the direction opposite from which the officer sought to take him,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Navarro