Darr v. People’s Empirical Analysis

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20 state decisions

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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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Kansas Crimes Code K.S.A. 21 Section 3301: "Attempt (1) An attempt is any overt act toward the perpetration of a crime done by a person who intends to commit such crime but fails in the perpetration thereof or is prevented or intercepted in executing such crime. (2) "It shall not be a defense to a charge of attempt that the circumstances under which the act was performed or the means employed or the act itself were such that the commission of the crime was not possible;" New York Penal Code Section 110.10: “If the conduct in which a person engages otherwise constitutes an attempt to commit a crime pursuant to Section 110.10, it is no defense to a prosecution for such attempt that the crime charged to have been attempted was under the attendant circumstances, factually or legally impossible of commission if such crime could have been committed had the attendant circumstances been as such person believed them to be;” Colorado Crimes Code 18-2-101(1) C.R.1973: “A person commits criminal attempt, if, acting with the kind of culpability otherwise required for commission of an offense, he intentionally engages in conduct constituting a substantial step toward commission of the offense ... Factual or legal impossibility of committing the offense is not a defense if the offense could have been committed had the attendant circumstances been as the actor believed them to be ..."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Henley

2. ““In our opinion the consequence of intent and acts such as those of defendants here should be more serious than pleased amazement that because of the timeliness of the police the projected criminality was not merely detected but also wiped out. . . .”10 Cal.Rptr. at 468, 358 P.2d at 924 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bandy v. State

3. “conduct in which a person engages otherwise constitutes an attempt to commit a crime.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 20 Wash. App. 893 - State v. Davidson