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490 So. 2d 255 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

39
cited by 39 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 661 So. 2d 442 - State v. Smith (1995), 775 So. 2d 1022 - State v. Casey (2000)

2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions

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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 Jackson v. Virginia · Katz v. United States · Cherek v. United States · 420 So. 2d 1126 - State v. Graham · Lindsey v. Louisiana

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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A. Any person who, having a specific intent to commit a crime, does or omits an act for the purpose of and tending directly toward the accomplishing of his object is guilty of an attempt to commit the offense intended; and it shall be immaterial whether, under the circumstances, he would have actually accomplished his purpose.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Hollis · 556 So. 2d 622 - State v. Wiggins
  2. “[t]he murder of a person by an intruder violating the sanctuary of the victim's own home [is] a particularly terrifying sort of crime to decent, law abiding people.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Anderson · 712 So. 2d 8 - State v. Robertson
  3. “overt act need not be the ultimate step toward, or the last proximate act or the last possible act in the consummation of the crime attempted.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 556 So. 2d 622 - State v. Wiggins · 946 So. 2d 654 - State v. Ordodi

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.