Granberry v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Jay v. Com. (2008), Evans v. Commonwealth (1975)
3 federal appellate · 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 Merritt v. Commonwealth · Glover v. Commonwealth · Taylor v. Commonwealth · Mullins v. Commonwealth · Rainey v. Commonwealth
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although it is impossible to adopt a bright-line rule for distinguishing acts of mere preparation from acts that constitute an attempt, "it may be said that preparation consists [of] ... arranging the means or measures necessary for the commission of the offense and that the attempt is the direct movement toward the commission after the preparations are made."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“While the overt acts of the accused [need not be] the last proximate acts necessary to the consummation of the crime, they [must be] direct overt acts well calculated to accomplish the result intended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jay v. Com.“The indictable offense for an attempt to commit a crime consists of an intent to commit a felony and the doing of some direct act towards its consummation without actually committing the crime itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Franklin
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.