People v. Lardner’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably 85 Ill. 2d 281 - People of Illinois v. Myers (1981), 141 Ill. 2d 528 - People v. Rivera (1990)
3 federal appellate · 45 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Graham v. People · People v. Meyer · Lundy v. State · Harrison v. . the People · Patrick v. People
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A failure to consummate the crime is as much an essential element of an attempt as the intent and the performance of an overt act toward its commission. . . . “When an indictment charges an offense which includes within it a lesser offense, the defendant, though acquitted of the higher offense, may be convicted of the lesser; but that rule cannot be applied to an attempt defined by the statute, because an essential element of the attempt is a failure to consummate the crime. ... If the evidence for the people proved the defendant guilty of the crime of larceny, he could not be convicted of an attempt which failed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.