People v. Siu’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably United States v. Oviedo (1976), United States v. Everett (1983)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 44 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 People v. Buffum · People v. Gallardo · 2 Cal. 2d 527 - People v. Miller · 70 Cal. App. 498 - People v. Lanzit · People v. Stites
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f there is an apparent ability to commit the crime in the way attempted, the attempt is indictable, although unknown to the person making the attempt, the crime cannot be committed, because the means employed are in fact unsuitable, or because of extrinsic facts, such as the nonexistence of an essential object, or an obstruction by the intended victim or by a third person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]£ a person formulates the intent and then proceeds to do something more ■which in the usual course of natural events will result in the commission of a crime, the attempt to commit that crime is complete. And even though the intended crime could not have been 1 completed, due to some extrinsic fact unknown to the person who intended it, still he is guilty of attempt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gargan v. State
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.