658 So. 2d 225 - State v. Golson’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2012
9 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 Jackson v. Virginia · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · Kliewer v. New Jersey · Kentucky v. Indiana · United States v. Eichman
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In order for the defendant's actions to be justified, the force must be reasonable under the circumstances and apparently necessary to prevent an imminent assault.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . the killing of a human being when the offender has a specific intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.