State v. Hurley’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2018
24 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 People v. Murray · Hicks v. Commonwealth · People v. Stites · Griffin v. State · People v. Lawton
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Between preparation for the attempt and the attempt itself there is a wide difference. The preparations consist in devising or arranging the means or measures necessary for the commission of the offense. The attempt is the direct movement towards the commission after the preparations are made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Addor“Acts of preparation ... may have such proximity to the place where the intended crime is to be committed, and such connection with a purpose of present accomplishment, that they will amount to an attempt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jack Sawyer“must be such as would be likely to end, if not extraneously interrupted, in the consummation of the crime intended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. DEVOID
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.