550 So. 2d 142 - Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2015
10 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 403 So. 2d 956 - Ray v. State · 488 So. 2d 62 - Williams v. State · Hutchinson v. State · 434 So. 2d 325 - State v. Sykes · 436 So. 2d 30 - Achin 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever attempts to commit an offense prohibited by law and in such attempt does any act toward the commission of such an offense, but fails in the perpetration or is intercepted or prevented in the execution of the same, commits the offense of criminal attempt and shall, when no express provision is made by law for the punishment of such attempt, be punished as provided in subsection (4).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]n the typical case of a criminal attempt, the factor distinguishing the attempt from the completed crime is that the intended criminal result, an element of the completed crime, was not achieved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Charger“the offense of attempting to solicit is implicitly included within [solicitation statutes].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Charger
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.