State v. Ribera’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably State v. Gunderson (2010), 10 Va. App. 87 - Josephs v. Commonwealth (1990)
31 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Mapp v. Ohio · Aguilar v. Texas · Simmons v. United States
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court has stated that an overt act ‘must reach far enough towards the accomplishment of the desired result to amount to the commencement of the consummation.’ In addition, the Court stated that ‘there must be at least some appreciable fragment of the crime committed, and it must be in such progress that it will be consummated unless interrupted by circumstances independent of the will of the attempter.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Mahoney
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.