37 Misc. 2d 14 - People v. Rolling’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1995
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions — followed in 11 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 People v. . Jaffe · 52 Cal. 2d 142 - People v. Camodeca · Stokes v. State · People v. . Moran · People v. . Mills
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) Definition of attempt. A person is guilty of an attempt to commit a crime if, acting with the kind of culpability otherwise required for commission of the crime, he: “(a) purposely engages in conduct which would constitute the crime if the attendant circumstances were as he believes them to be; or “(b) when causing a particular result is an element of the crime, does or omits to do anything with the purpose of causing or with the belief that it will cause such result, without further conduct on his part; or “(c) purposely does or omits to do anything which, under the circumstances as he believes them to be, is a substantial step in a course of conduct planned to culminate in his commission of the crime.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Examples of cases in which attempt convictions have been sustained on the ' theory that all that prevented the consummation of the completed crime was a ‘factual impossibility’ [as distinguished from a “legal impossibility”] are; ⅝ ⅜ ⅜ ⅝ i'fi ⅜ (b) An attempt to steal from an empty receptacle (Clark v. State, 86 Tenn. 511 , 8 S.W. 145 ) or an empty house. (State v. Utley, 82 N.C. 556 ) 13”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gargan v. State““We think that an attempt to commit a felony can only be made out when, if no interruption had taken place, the attempt could have been carried out successfully, and the felony completed of the attempt to commit which the party is charged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lopez
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.