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← 720 NE2D 7 - Guthrie v. State

Guthrie v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
May 2014
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Spangler v. State · Moore v. State · Wellman v. State · Ajabu v. State · Braster 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “resisted the officers' efforts by leaning his body back and stiffening his legs.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “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.”
    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.