State v. Mandel’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Mims v. United States (1967), State v. Harvill (1970)
6 federal appellate · 77 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 2 Cal. 2d 527 - People v. Miller · Stokes v. State · People v. McNulty · People v. Siu · 70 Cal. App. 498 - People v. Lanzit
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * (W)here a court is given the discretion to fix a period of years to life, it can take as the prescribed maximum such period of years as it deems proper as a base maximum and impose a sentence for the attempt at not to exceed one-half such base maximum.” 78 Ariz. at 231 , 278 P.2d at 417 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Durgin · State v. Bandy““[t]oo many subtle distinctions have been drawn along these lines for practical purposes. Too many loopholes have been made whereby parties are enabled to escape punishment for that which is known to be criminal in its worse [sic] sense.” 46 So., at 629 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Otto · Braham v. State““A person who attempts to commit a crime shall be punished, where no provision is made by law for the punishment of such attempt, as follows: “1. If the offense so attempted is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for five years or more or by imprisonment in the county jail, by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail, as the case may be, for a term not exceeding one half' the longest term of imprisonment prescribed upon conviction of the offense so attempted.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Durgin · State v. Bandy
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.