State v. Trepagnier’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

95 state decisions

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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A. 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. * * * * C. An attempt is a separate but lesser grade of the intended crime; and any person may be convicted of an attempt to commit a crime, although it appears on the trial that the crime intended or attempted was actually perpetrated by such person in pursuance of such attempt.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 880 So. 2d 854 - State v. Wiley · 758 So. 2d 362 - State v. Monette

2. “`be exercised at a reasonable time, in a reasonable manner, and at an appropriate stage within the procedural framework of the criminal justice system.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Marshall · 818 So. 2d 246 - State v. Robinson

3. “nothing more than the purposeless imposition of pain and suffering.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 913 So. 2d 843 - State v. Scott · 977 So. 2d 1074 - State v. Stovall