State v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2013
16 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 Davies v. Carter Carburetor, Division ACF Industries, Inc. · State v. Moon · State v. King · Barnes v. Marshall · State v. Heitman
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"There emerges here a clear requirement that conviction of an attempt to kill or to cause serious physical injury requires proof of a very specific intent on the part of the actor to accomplish that objective. That intent has been described in various ways. The statute uses the language `a firm purpose.' In the comments upon § 5.01 of the Model Penal Code ... (Tent.Draft No. 10, 1960), the following language is used: As previously stated, the proposed definition of attempt follows the conventional pattern of limiting this inchoate crime to purposive conduct. In the language of the court, there must be `intent in fact' or `specific intent' to commit the crime allegedly attempted."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. O'DELL“A person is guilty of attempt to commit an offense when, with the purpose of committing the offense, he does any act which is a substantial step towards the commission of the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. O'DELL“conduct which is strongly corroborative of the firmness of the actor's purpose to complete the commission of the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. O'DELL
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.