Braster v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2013
1 federal appellate · 9 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 Alfaro v. State · 163 Ind. App. 653 - Carter v. State · Bass v. State · Bass v. State · White 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(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 ... commits resisting law enforcement, a class A misdemeanor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McCaffrey v. State · Young v. State“there was no force involved on defendant's part.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Colvin v. State · Small v. State“sweep [defendant's] legs out from under him”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Colvin 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.