65 Md. App. 69 - Sibiga v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2011
13 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Gaither v. United States · Wilhelm v. State · Tichnell v. State · MacK 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. A police officer engaged in the performance of a duty; 2. An act or omission by the accused which obstructs or hinders a police officer in the performance of that duty; 3. Knowledge by the accused of facts comprising element # 1; and 4. Intent to obstruct or hinder the officer by the act or omission constituting element # 2.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.