State v. Luther’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably State v. Hinton (2014), State v. Ollivier (2013)
27 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2256
Relies on New York v. Ferber · Zant v. Stephens · Ashcroft Attorney General v. Free Speech Coalition · Osborne v. Ohio · 94 Wash. 2d 216 - State v. Green
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is guilty of an attempt to commit a crime if, with intent to commit a specific crime, he or she does any act which is a substantial step toward the commission of that crime.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]n attempt conviction does not depend on the ultimate harm that results or on whether the crime was actually completed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Patel · State v. White“[A]n attempt conviction results because ofthe defendant's 'bad intent' to commit the crime and the fact that had things been as the defendant believed them to be, he or she would have completed the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nelson
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.