Commonwealth v. Joyce’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A person commits the crime of resisting 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 ..., 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. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1121 - Commonwealth v. Recinos-Guerra

2. “the harmful consequences of the conduct -- that is, the interference with, obstruction, or hindrance.”

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