State v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 2026
1 federal appellate · 3 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 Beck v. Alabama · Keeble v. United States · State v. Baker · Smith v. Batchelor · State v. Hill
Most-quoted passages
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“[t]o be guilty of this offense, a driver must first willfully or wantonly disregard an officer's visual or audible signal to stop the vehicle. The crime is then completed in one of two ways: Either (1) the driver operates his vehicle in a way that interferes with the operation of any other vehicle or endangers any person or vehicle, or (2) the driver attempts to flee or elude the officer. Accordingly, a violation of section 41-6-13.5 could be characterized either as "failing to respond to a peace officer’s signal to stop" or as “fleeing or eluding a peace officer.” Simpson, 904 P.2d at 712 . Utah courts have not addressed the elements of this offense under the current statute. But Simpson’s interpretation of the earlier statute no longer appears accurate in light of the subsequent legislative revision, breaking this statute into two separate provisions and relegating the "willful or wanton” language only to the first of those sections.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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