Johnson v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that defendant who “stiffened up” as police were attempting to put him in police vehicle, requiring police to physically place him inside it, used forcible resistance
• holding evidence sufficient to support resisting law enforcement conviction where defendant pushed officers away using his shoulders and “stiffened up” in his struggle with officers
• holding that there was sufficient evidence of forcible resistance where the defendant used physical means to resist the officers when he turned and pushed away with his shoulders and stiffened up, requiring officers to exert force to place him inside a transport vehicle
• determining that sufficient evidence established forcible resistance where Johnson turned and pushed away from officers as they attempted to search him and then stiffened his body to avoid being placed in a jail transport vehicle
• finding forcible resistance where defendant “stiffened up” when officers attempted to put him into a police vehicle
• affirming a conviction for resisting; Johnson pushed away from officers as they attempted to search him and “stiffened up” when officers attempted to place him in transport vehicle

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

33 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Demetrius Walker v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2013-12-12· cited 101×
• Graham v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2009-04-08· cited 69×
• J.S. v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-03-21· cited 36×
• Lopez v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2010-05-13· cited 24×
• Colvin v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-11-13· cited 21×
• Berberena v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-09-25· cited 19×
• Dallaly v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-11-25· cited 13×
• A.C. v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2010-07-07· cited 11×
• Freddie Patterson v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2014-07-07· cited 8×
• Aguirre v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2011-08-25· cited 7×
• Bowden v. Town of Speedway, Ind.
  S.D. Indiana· 2008-02-13· cited 6×
• Demetrius Walker v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2013-01-30· cited 5×
• Graham v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2008-07-24· cited 1×
• JS v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-03-21
• AC v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2010-07-07
• Betty Woods v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2014-05-29
• Eric Lynn v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-04-23
• Blake John Drapeau v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-02-16
• Manuel Ocasio, Jr. v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-02-22
• Gilberto Jimenez v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-03-10

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Price v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1993-11-01· cited 209×
• Spangler v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1993-01-22· cited 147×
• Kien v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-01-28· cited 105×
• Wellman v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1998-12-02· cited 34×
• Ajabu v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1998-12-10· cited 28×
• Guthrie v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1999-11-17· cited 12×