State v. Castonguay’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2017
12 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 State v. Manus · State v. Lamm · Thacker v. Commonwealth · 3 Ill. App. 3d 235 - People v. Henry · State v. Maestas
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) For purposes of this part a person is guilty of an attempt to commit a crime if, acting with the kind of culpability otherwise required for the commission of the offense, he engages in conduct constituting a substantial step toward commission of the offense. (2) For purposes of this part, conduct does not constitute a substantial step unless it is strongly corroborative of the actor's intent to commit the offense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Griffin · State v. Jones“[a]ll the circumstances, when taken together,... admit of no other reasonable hypothesis than that of guilt to warrant conviction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Casey · State v. Gonzales“'[iln establishing the nexus between intent and act it must be borne in mind that an attempt transcends intent, yet fails to culminate in its planned accomplishment.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Arave · State v. Jones
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.