Long v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “A person commits the offense of obstruction of a law enforcement officer when he knowingly and willfully obstructs or hinders any law enforcement officer in the lawful discharge of his official duties.”
• “[A]n argument that the arrest was unlawful does not state an affirmative defense to a charge of obstruction. Rather, that argument is an assertion that the state has failed to prove an essential element of the offense — a lawful arrest.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Martha Hoyt v. Bernard Cooks
  Eleventh Circuit· 2012-02-27· cited 89×
• Glenn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-05· cited 16×
• Campbell v. Goode
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-03-29· cited 14×
• Hendrix v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-06-21· cited 12×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-12-16· cited 11×
• Bynes v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-16· cited 11×
• Curtis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-05-08· cited 10×
• Mayfield v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-11-23· cited 8×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-11-06· cited 5×
• The State v. Hall
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-10-28· cited 4×
• Haygood v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-07-15· cited 3×
• GLENN v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-04-26· cited 2×
• Horton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-05-09· cited 2×
• Darius Horton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-05-09
• Brandon Cox v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2026-03-04

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-11-12· cited 36×
• Smith v. Holeman
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-02-23· cited 13×
• Cunningham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-05-08· cited 8×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-04-23· cited 7×