State v. MORETTI’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably 71 Cal. 2d 954 - People v. Belous (1969), United States v. Everett (1983)
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 64 state decisions — followed in 13 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 13A (Sherman Antitrust Act)
Relies on Pinkerton v. United States · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Thornhill v. Alabama · United States v. Harriss · United States v. James Griggs Raines
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen the consequences sought by a defendant are forbidden by the law as criminal, it is no defense that he could not succeed in reaching his goal because of circumstances unknown to him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of completing the substantive crime the defendant cannot be guilty of an attempt, but where there is”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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: (1) Purposely engages in conduct which would constitute the crime if the attendant circumstances were as a reasonable person would believe them to be; (3) Purposely does or omits to do anything which, under the circumstances as a reasonable person would believe them to be, is an act or omission constituting a substantial step in a course of conduct planned to culminate in his commission of the crime. [ (Emphasis added).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kuhn
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.