McCravy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2018
2 federal appellate · 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 Green v. State · Cody v. State · Morrison 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person commits an offense if, with specific intent to commit an offense, he does an act amounting to more than mere preparation that tends but fails to effect the commission of the offense intended.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Jernigan v. State · Sorce v. State“[AJcts which “tend to intrude” [into a building or habitation] are not necessarily required. An accused could be convicted [of attempted burglary] as long as the alleged acts “tended to effect the commission of a burglary.” Thus, the emphasis is not necessarily on entry but on acts which tend to effect the commission of a burglary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“imaginary line which separates ... 'mere preparation’ from ... an act which ‘tends [but fails] to effect the commission of the offense,' ” because the appellant's action was the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Thornton, Gregory
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.