Commonwealth v. Maylott’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A person [resists arrest] if he knowingly prevents or attempts to prevent a police officer, acting under color of his official authority, from effecting an arrest of the actor or another by: (1) using or threatening to use physical force or violence against the police officer or another; or (2) using any other means which creates a substantial risk of causing bodily injury to such police officer or another.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Almenas

2. “an active, physical refusal to submit to the authority of the arresting officers.”

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