State v. Moriarty’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2019
16 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 State v. Dulany · State v. Brown · State v. Olson · State v. Cline · State v. Nolan
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, that on or about December 2, 1996, in the County of Scott, State of Missouri, the defendant obstructed the performance of a governmental function, and Second, that defendant did so by physical obstruction in that he placed vehicles around a mobile home and refused to move the vehicles from around the mobile home for which law enforcement officers were executing a Writ of Replevin ..., and, Third, that defendant did so for the purpose of obstructing the performance of such governmental function, then you will find the defendant guilty of obstructing government operations. However, unless you find and believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt each and all of these propositions, you must find the defendant not guilty of that offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Holloway
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.