State v. McCoy’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably 267 N.J. Super. 520 - State v. Bielkiewicz (1993), State v. Robinson (1994)
43 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 Rodriguez v. New York · McDonald v. United States · New York v. Penn Central Transportation Co. · Lehnhausen v. Lake Shore Auto Parts Co. · State v. Labato
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An attempt is purposeful `not only because it is so defined by statute, but because one cannot logically attempt to cause a particular result unless causing that result is one's `conscious object,' the distinguishing feature of a purposeful mental state. N.J.S.A. 2C:2-2(b)(1).'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The law provides that a person is guilty of an attempt to commit a crime, if, acting with a kind of culpability otherwise required for the commission of the crime, and here it would be purposely or knowingly, the person purposely does something which under the circumstances as a reasonable person would believe them to be is an act constituting a substantial step in a course of conduct planned to culminate in his commission of the crime. Therefore, in order to find Morris Jackmon guilty of a criminal attempt of murder, the State must prove the following elements beyond a reasonable doubt. First, the State must prove that Morris Jackmon acted with the same criminal culpability as is required for the commission of the murder, that is, that he acted purposely or knowingly. This means to be guilty of an attempt to commit a crime Morris Jackmon must have the same state of mind that’s necessary to find him guilty of the crime itself. [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Jackmon“a. Receiving. A person is guilty of theft if he knowingly receives or brings into this State movable property of another knowing that it has been stolen, or belieuing that it is probably stolen. It is an affirmative defense that the property was received with purpose to restore it to the owner.... [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lige
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.