46 Wis. 2d 473 - Boyles v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2001 · most notably 50 Wis. 2d 79 - Claybrooks v. State (1971), 86 Wis. 2d 474 - State v. Dix (1979)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 31 Wis. 2d 110 - Lock v. State · Huebner v. State · 33 Wis. 2d 373 - Commodore v. State · Jackson v. State · State v. Damms
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Since all attempts to commit crimes are failures to do so, a failure excuses a defendant who attempts a crime only when his actual attempt is incomplete, rather than unsuccessful. Within the contemplation of this section an attempt is complete when the defendant, with intent to commit a crime, takes action in furtherance of such intent and the failure to accomplish the crime is due to a factor beyond his control or one unknown to him. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““This court in Rafferty v. State (1966), 29 Wis.2d 470, 478 , 138 N.W.2d 741 , cited with approval Jackson v. State (1963), 231 Md. 691 , 191 Atl.2d 432 , which held that a starter pistol which could not discharge a bullet was a dangerous weapon because it could be used as a bludgeon and because it had the appearance of a lethal gun.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“acts toward the commission of the crime which demonstrate unequivocally, under all the circumstances, that he formed the intent and would commit the crime except for the intervention of another person or some other extraneous factor.”
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.