414 So. 2d 182 - Petty v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2020
19 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 407 So. 2d 576 - Marvin v. State · Reed v. State · 372 So. 2d 872 - Reed v. State · Williams 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the former offense of assault with intent to rob has been merged into the present offense of robbery.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘In the course of committing a theft’ embraces acts which occur in an attempt to commit or the commission of theft, or in immediate flight after the attempt or commission.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A person is guilty of an attempt to commit a crime if, with the intent to commit a specific offense, he does any overt act towards the commission of such offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.