89 N.J. Super. 169 - State v. Koonce’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics (1971), United States v. Heliczer (1967)
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 88 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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 Great Northern Ry Co v. Sunburst Oil & Refining Co · State v. Johnson · McDonald v. United States · Laskey Bros. of West Virginia, Inc. v. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. · State v. Smith
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n this era of constantly expanding legal protection of the rights of the accused in criminal proceedings, an arrestee may be reasonably required to submit to a possibly unlawful arrest and to take recourse in the legal processes available to restore his liberty.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““* * * we declare it to be the law of this State that a private citizen may not use force to resist arrest by one he knows or has good reason to believe is an authorized police officer engaged in the performance of his duties, whether or not the arrest is illegal under the circumstances obtaining.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““If a person has reasonable ground to believe he is being arrested by a peace officer, it is his duty to refrain from using force or any weapon in resisting arrest regardless of whether or not there is a legal basis for the arrest.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.