People v. Offen’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2018
2 federal appellate · 4 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“although not an issue before the court, it is observed that it is no crime to refuse to open a door to police officers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to divert attention from the initial alleged criminality or transgression”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whenever any barrier is placed in the path of process and/or arrest,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.