People v. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2021
20 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 People v. CALVAREST · People v. Thiret · Engelbrecht v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. · People v. Deadmond · People v. Johnson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o effect an arrest, the peace officer must apply a level of physical control over the person resisting the arrest so as to reasonably assure that the person does not leave. Once the arrest has been effected, then the person is in custody for purposes of § 18-3-203(1)(4).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[wihile lawfully confined or in custody, he or she knowingly and violently applies physical force against the person of a peace officer ... engaged in the performance of his or her duties.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A person commits resisting arrest if he knowingly prevents or attempts to prevent a peace officer, acting under color of his official authority, from effecting an arrest of the actor or another, by: (a) Using or threatening to use physical force or violence against the peace officer or another.”
2 later decisions 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.