Groneau v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably State v. Waters (1983), 456 So. 2d 448 - Amlotte v. State (1984)
2 federal appellate · 42 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 Gustine v. State · State v. Mazzadra · Graham v. People · State v. Wilson · 104 So. 2d 391 - Harrison v. State
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"As to when the conduct of a defendant charged with attempt to commit a crime amounts to an overt act is illustrated in Groneau v. State , Fla.App., 201 So.2d 599 , 603 , wherein it is said: " 'Mere intention to commit a specific crime does not amount to an attempt. Preparation alone is not sufficient. Something more is required than mere menace, preparation or planning. The attempt is complete and punishable, when an act is done with intent to commit the crime, which is adapted to the perpetration of it, whether the purpose fails by reason of interruption, or for other extrinsic cause. State v. Wilson , 30 Conn. 500 , 506 ; State v. Enanno , 96 Conn. 420 , 427 , 114 A. 386 . The act must reach far enough towards the accomplishment of the desired result to amount to the commencement of the consummation. There must be some appreciable fragment of the crime committed and it must be in such progress that it would be consummated unless interrupted by circumstances independent of the will of the attempter. It is not, however, essential that the actor would have actually succeeded if he had followed the course of conduct upon which he had embarked. State v. Mazzadra , 1954, 141 Conn. 731 , 109 A.2d 873 . 1 Wharton Criminal Law, Attempt, § 224 (12th Ed.).' "The 'preparation' for commission of an offense consists in devising or arranging the means or measures necessary for commission of the crime, while an 'attempt' or 'overt act' is a direct movement toward the commission, after the”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Although an overt act does not establish the particular intent to commit a specific crime, yet intent, being a state of mind, or mental process, may be proved by the statement or act of the person whose act is being scrutinized and may also be inferred from the facts and circumstances as is the case in consummated crimes. 1 Wharton's Crim. Law, Attempts, § 234 (12th ed.). State v. Tomblin , *Page 45 1942, 124 W. Va. 264 , 20 S.E.2d 122 ; State v. Leach , 1950, 36 Wn.2d 641 , 219 P.2d 972 ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"There must be an intent to commit a crime coupled with an overt act apparently adopted to effect that intent, carried beyond mere preparation, but falling short of execution of the ultimate design."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robinson 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.