State v. Huff’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2015
22 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 State v. True · State v. Rich · State v. Levesque · State v. Howard · State v. Blier
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hat “knowingly” is a distinct and less purposeful state of mind than “intentionally” is clear by definition, 17-A M.R. S.A. § 35(1)(A) and (2)(A), and is implicit in the formulation of 17-A M.R.S.A. § 34(3). While either mental state may satisfy the murder statute, this does not commend them equally for purposes of the attempt statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brown“Where a discrepancy exists in the culpable mental states between criminal attempt and the offense attempted, the criminal attempt to commit such a crime is a “logical impossibility.” ... Before a person can be convicted of attempted murder, he must act with the intent to cause the death of another human being. 16”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bell“in a prosecution for criminal attempt, where alternative culpable mental states will satisfy the target offense, but only one is compatible with the attempt statute, the incompatible element must be omitted from the jury instructions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Casey
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.